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IPS - Inter Press Services

• THAILAND: Sweeping Support Sought for Domestic Wor ...
  "My male employer was a womaniser and he liked to touch me and told me not to tell his wife. I felt so uncomfortable," says Chompoo, who was just 15 years old when she served – and suffered abuse – as a domestic worker here in the Thai capital.
• SRI LANKA: Former Battle Zone In Search of A Busin ...
  It is an odd location to open a new restaurant, right in front of a row of buildings whose roofs have been blown off by artillery fire and whose walls are pockmarked by gunfire.
• LATIN AMERICA: Gender Struggles and Achievements - ...
  Men in Latin America are increasingly engaged in raising their children, a change that has been largely forced on them by women's self-development. However, men are still a long way from taking on a more equal role in housework, and they are still burdened with the obligation to be the main provid ...
• Sao Tome and Principe at Oil Bonanza Crossroads
  With the discovery of large amounts of oil in the Gulf of Guinea, the small archipelago of Sao Tome and Principe faces the possibility of benefiting from considerable oil revenues. However, a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday documents the difficulties in managing the ...
• KENYA: A Bid to Save Macadamia Crops
  Joseph Ndirangu Muriithi is a worried man. After watching the fall of coffee farming in Kenya a decade ago, he now fears that his other cash crop will also go into decline as a new disease preys on his macadamia trees.

Scoop - NZ

• Climate change: time for a parliamentary rematch
  NEW ZEALAND recently did what Australia failed to do (also recently): roll out an economy-wide emission trading system. As a scheme designed by a government of the left, and amended by a conservative one, the framework bore a close resemblance to Australia's scheme and was subject to many of the sam ...
• Half of Shanghai, Beijing Flats Are Vacant
  At least half of the apartments in Shanghai and Beijing are empty, the China Daily reported today, citing an online investigation by volunteers conducted in 100 Chinese cities. About 51 percent of Shanghai apartments, 66 percent of Beijing flats and more than 70 percent of units in Hainan are vacan ...
• Greek Crisis Refuses to Go Away
  The European Commission has approved the next a4¬9bn (£7.4bn) tranche of loans for Greece but the underlying economy continues to deteriorate as Greek banks suffer a record loss of deposits and output contracts at a quickening pace. A report by HSBC said banks had lost 8pc of their entire deposit ...
• Aust Greens win seats in every state
  THE Senate is set to move sharply to the left, with the Greens winning a Senate seat in every state, and Labor taking a Coalition seat in Tasmania. The Greens will have the balance of power to themselves when the new senators take up their seats on July 1, 2011. That means no legislation will pass ...
• Nevada: 25% underemployment, economic implosion.
  The great recession has touched every state across the United States with a reverse Midas touch.  Every average American has felt this recession to one degree or another.  Yet few states have felt the economic implosion like Nevada.  Here we have a state that highlights the heavy reliance on the ...

Independent - London

• French bank fined £1.6 million for reporting failu ...
  The City regulator today slapped a £1.6 million fine on the London branch of investment bank Societe Generale after systematic financial reporting failures over more than two years.
• BP 'ignored concerns about oil well'
  BP ignored the concerns of its contractor over the cementing of the Deepwater Horizon well shortly before it ruptured, a US hearing was told.
• Iran test-fires new short-range missile
  Iran said today that it has successfully test-fired a new generation of a short-range surface-to-surface missile.
• At least 13 killed in Iraq attacks
  A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces killed 13 people and left scores of others injured today, officials said.
• Doctor who killed UK patient to face German inquir ...
  A German doctor who accidentally killed a British patient on his first out-of-hours shift in the UK is to face an inquiry in his own country, it was disclosed today.

Rogue Government.com

• NASA To Reveal Big News From Planet Hunting Space ...
• Gym Chain Deploys Biometric Finger Scanners
  Members of the 24 Hour Fitness chain no longer need to worry about forgetting their membership cards and IDs when they go to the gym: All they need to bring are their fingers.
• FDA commissioner says agency needs more authority ...
  Food and Drug Administration chief Margaret Hamburg, beset with an egg-and-salmonella food safety challenge, said Monday the agency must move from a reactive to preventive enforcement strategy.
• Barack Obama Elementary Opens in Maryland
  The first school in the D.C. area named after the current president opens Monday morning as the school year begins in Prince George's County .
• How Oil Heir David Koch Became The Tea Party's Wa ...

Innovation Canada

• Painless parenting
  Taking a child to the emergency room or to get a routine immunization is an experience most parents dread. Instinctively, they seek to soothe their children by telling them that everything will turn out fine. But Dalhousie University researchers Meghan McMurtry and Christine Chambers have some surpr ...
• Barcoding life
  Biologist Paul Hebert couldn’t believe his eyes when a colleague found a species of moth native to Mexico fluttering over the tundra at the fringes of Hudson Bay in Churchill, Man., one summer day in 2006. The huge black witch moth with a 20-centimetre wingspan had never before been found that far n ...
• Building smarts
• Send in the bacteria
  The video clip is the stuff of science fiction: a swarm of 5,000 bacteria lift microscopic epoxy bricks and assemble them one by one to form a pyramid, as if they were building a tower of blocks. A computer directs their movement by controlling magnetic fields.But for Sylvain Martel and his team of ...
• Seeing red
  Ram Krishna of Toronto has had type 2 diabetes for almost 25 years, but he only started taking insulin a couple of years ago to help better control it. Since the insulin regimen began, he has had to test his blood glucose level more regularly — about three to five times a week. To do so, he does wha ...

Signs of the times

• Carrefour Will Quit Malaysia: Minister
  Kuala Lumpur. French retail giant Carrefour plans to sell its business in Malaysia, a minister said, amid speculation the company will also offload its stores in Singapore and Thailand. "We heard Carrefour is considering divesting. It is for the purpose of rationalizing their overseas business," De ...
• Hitler had Jewish and African roots, DNA tests sho ...
  Adolf Hitler is likely to have had Jewish and African roots, DNA tests have shown. Saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of the Nazi leader show he may have had biological links to the "subhuman" races that he tried to exterminate during the Holocaust. Jean-Paul Mulders, a Belgian journalist, and ...
• Mothers abused by partners see decline in mental h ...
  Even after leaving a violent or controlling relationship, the mental health of mothers may actually get worse before it gets better, a new study suggests. Researchers found that in the two years after the end of an abusive relationship, mothers showed poorer mental health, became more depressed and ...
• After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Cou ...
  This story was reported by Sabrina Shankman and Tom Jennings of Frontline, Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi of The New Orleans Times-Picayune and A.C. Thompson of ProPublica In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot loo ...
• Police find body in bag at MI6 man's London flat
  Police searching the home of a missing MI6 worker in central London have found the body of a man in a bag. The discovery was made at a top-floor flat in Alderney Street, Pimlico, on Monday afternoon. Officers went to the address following reports that the occupant had not been seen for some time. ...

The Galloping Beaver

• The Epic of Airshow continues
  NaPo via Jymn : Canada's Defence Minister has lashed out at a new video game that allows players to take on the role of Taliban fighters and kill U.S. troops. In other news, real military members lash out at a real politician pretending to be one . You really can't make this stuff up.
• Mega Gridlock
  NPR has a report on a humongous traffic jam in China. It defies belief: Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with vehicles moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a day at one point has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiako ...
• "Proper channels"
  The pale one expels: Harper noted Canada is a land of refuge, but when hundreds of people come to the country outside the proper channels, it leads to “significant security concerns,” he said. I might suggest that it is a "significant security concern" when our government is only able to cling to ...
• And now ... a message from Steve
  From Pale at A Creative Revolution and featuring the smooth but fuzzy blue sweater vocalizations of our own Reverend Paperboy.
• And another one bites the dust...
  CBC. ...The calls come a day after police sources told CBC News that RCMP Commissioner William Elliott ordered Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak, director general of the firearms program and a strong supporter of the long-gun registry, to attend French-language training after nine months on the job. Be ...

Media Matters for America

• Beck falsely claims Imam Rauf's wife said "all Am ...
  As part of an escalating attack on the Park51 Islamic community center, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that Daisy Khan, the wife of the imam who is spearheading the Park51 project, said that "all Americans hate Muslims." In fact, while discussing the strident opposition to the center, Khan said tha ...
• Fox News: Unofficial corporate sponsor of Beck's ...
  On Fox & Friends , co-host Steve Doocy took great pains to declare that Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally was Beck's alone--"not Fox News'." Yet, just as it did for the tea party rallies, Fox has provided Beck a platform to promote his rally all over the network; indeed, when Beck later appeared ...
• Who is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf?
  Throughout the debate over the Islamic community center set to be built near ground zero, conservative media have repeatedly conflated all Muslims with violent extremists. Moreover, they have explicitly smeared Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is spearheading the project, as a radical Muslim who s ...
• NY Post misleadingly claims Reid plans "to allow t ...
  A New York Post article misleadingly claimed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans "to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire." In fact, Reid plans to extend the Bush tax cuts for the majority of Americans. NYP : Reid plans "to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire." � An August 24 New York Pos ...
• Geller distorts Rauf lecture to falsely paint him ...
  Right-wing blogger Pamela Geller grossly distorted portions of a 2005 lecture by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to falsely suggest Rauf is an "extremis[t]" who "supports homicide bombers" and supports the "elimination of Israel." The Drudge Report and Rush Limbaugh have subsequently trumpeted Geller's repo ...

Global Research.ca

• Afghanistan Crisis Deepens: U.S., Canada and NATO ...
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• Record drop in US home sales
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Newly-Discovered Species of Bacteria Claimed to be ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Corporate Funding of the Upcoming US Mid-Term Con ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Space Warfare: Preparing the "Battlespace" for A N ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Tweak This
  Crazy Al sure is funny. Steny Hoyer, Chris Van Hollen, Erskine Bowles, Brad Woodhouse, and President Barack Obama, not as funny. But they all have expressed an intention to cut Social Security benefits. Woodhouse, communications director for the Democratic National Committee, says the program nee ...
• The Silence Of the Democrats
  According to TPM , the following Democrats have come out publicly in favor of building the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), candidate for Senate Alexi Giannoulias (D-IL), candidate for Senate Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) Sen. Ru ...
• Fannie and Freddie: Live Public or Die
  The administration took its first step towards resolving the final status of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a big conference at the White House last week. In keeping with its housing policy to date, it seems intent on taking the worst possible course. These mortgage giants have played an importa ...
• The Lobby's Leaders Helped Start The Anti-Muslim ...
  I already wrote that the leaders of the "pro-Israel" lobby helped lay the groundwork for the anti-Muslim explosion that has seized this country over the past month. That was confirmed over the weekend when I read (and saw all over my tv) that Beth Gilinsky, a pro-settler organizer, dreamed up yeste ...
• Pull the Plug on US Commission on International Re ...
  During the battle over John Bolton's US Senate confirmation to serve as US Ambassador to the United Nations which resulted in "no vote" and thus his early resignation from a recess-appointed position, I received a lot of sensitive information from incumbent and former staff members of the US Commiss ...

TruthOut

• US Submits Historic Human Rights Report to UN, but ...
  This week, for the first time, the United States submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, a rotating body of countries that peer-review U.N. member countries’ human rights records. This submission is historic. Where the Bush administration spent years criticizing the U.N. and human rig ...
• Rachel Maddow | New Law Protects Americans From Cr ...
• News in Brief: Al-Shabab Launch Attack in Somalia, ...
  Somalia: Al-Shabab Attacks, Kills at Least 32 read more
• Cutting Through the Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate ...
  Cutting Through the Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate America's march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, a similarly flawed media conversat ...
• Record Plunge for Home Sales Could Weigh Heavily o ...
  Home sales fell 27 percent between June and July. The news suggests that working through a glut of unsold homes and foreclosed properties may take longer than some economists predicted. The pace of home sales in the United States took a sharp turn for the worse in July, falling a record 27 percent ...

Planetsave

• Pesticides and ADHD (cartoon)
  From Grist: More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons.
• Will Wind and Solar Power the Planet
  Continuous research and development could soon see wind and solar dominate energy production, according to Nobel laureate Walter Kohn, Ph.D. Speaking at a symposium at the American Chemical Society’s 240’th National Meeting, Kohn said that he believed that with continuous research and development of ...
• Americans Using More Renewables and Less Energy
  Americans used more renewable energy in 2009 while still using less energy. According to data released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory the United States used much less coal and petroleum in 2009 than it did in 2008 while still using significantly more wind power. “Energy use tends to f ...
• Is the Arctic Ice Getting Thinner
  Forecasts indicate that this year’s sea ice minimum, set to peak in September, will not be as low in 2007 which itself was the year that saw the Arctic sea ice at its smallest on record. But scientists are still concerned, and as a result are measuring the ice thickness north and east of Greenland.. ...
• 23+ Green Heroes (7 Green Bloggers Series)
  This edition of 7 Green Bloggers (which, as you will see, actually turned into 9 Green Bloggers) was a fun one. I asked these leading bloggers (who, themselves, could be heroes to many people) to tell us who their green heroes were. Some familiar names came up, but also some names I’m not so familia ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Sept. 17-18 Events in Virginia Beach will Showcase ...
  Friends of VCN, Please join the Virginia Conservation Network in Virginia Beach, September 17-18th a
• CBO Cost Estimate: Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecos ...
  Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/118xx/doc11816/s1816.pdf S. 1816 would reauth
• Grand Canyon National Park: Resource Challenges an ...
  National Parks Conservation Association http://www.npca.org/stateoftheparks/grand_canyon/ NPCA found
• August Dissolved Oxygen Survey
  NBEP, Brown University and Save the Bay conducted a water quality survey on Thursday, August 19th, a
• Recent Articles- IJES
  Assessment and Spatial Distribution of Quality of Groundwater in Zone-II and III, Greater Visakhapat

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Ramadan Force-Feeding, and Renewed Secrecy Surroun ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 25 August, 2010 Image
• Five Years and Still Drowning - The New Orleans CN ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 24 August, 2010 Image via Wikipedi
• Taking the computer into the shop today
  photo by Dandelion Salad Finally, I’m going to take the old computer into the shop today.  Hop
• Energy Sacrifice Zones by Rand Clifford
  by Rand Clifford Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 23, 2010 The concept is an old one. The amou
• Another Swing and a Miss for Congress by Walter Br ...
  by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com August 23, 2010 A federal gran

Axis of Logic

• Israelis risk jail to smuggle Palestinians - Pales ...
  NAZARETH, ISRAEL // Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank. The Israelis say they have been inspired by the example of Ilana...
• Likud hawks convene against freeze - Palestine
  With the Washington peace summit a mere week away, Likud members who are right off the party`s political line are gearing for several protests meant to ensure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows his party will not abide the continuous suspension of settlement activity. Members of the Likud ...
• Global boycott movement claims victories, arrests ...
  This week, the Norwegian government announced that it has divested from two major Israeli companies involved in settlement construction and land theft in the occupied West Bank. Both companies, Africa Israel Investments and its subsidiary, Danya Cebus, are owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, ...
• END:CIV. Resist or Die - Culture and Art
  The Revolutionary Work of Derrick Jenson and Frank Lopez Taking the long view Endless economic growth has turned into a global economic crash. What will the next hundred years bring? Students of history know that all civilizations eventually come to an end. The ancient Mayans, the dynast ...
• Holocaust denier death, Mossad linked - Crime and ...
  American writer JP Bellinger dose not rule out the the involvement of Israeli spy agency, Mossad, in the tragic death of a Polish historian, who was researching on the Holocaust. Dariusz Ratajczak, a former professor at the University of Opole, was found dead in a car parked near a sh ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Lack of clean water kills people - "serious" is putting it mildly. "Pakistan's prime minister says the government is "seriously concerned" about the potential spread of epidemic diseases in the flood-hit country. Yousuf Raza Gilani was speaking during high-level talks aimed at preventing a mass heal ...
• Repugs Demand You Pay $3 million to Each of the Na ...
  Here's yet another chart, courtesy of Kevin Drum , illustrating the repugs' unconscionable demand that middle-class Americans hand over their last dime to the already obscenely wealthy. Paul Krugman: We need to pinch pennies these days. Don't you know we have a budget deficit? For months that has ...
• Dear Mayfield, KY: Somali Muslims Are Too Good for ...
  Everyone in Mayfield who is not white and Xian should pack up and leave right now. �Let the hate-mongering retards left behind find out just how much their economy depended on the Others they chased away. � Media Czech has the shameful details and video: Islamophobe fever from the Fox News crowd con ...
• Cheap Labor Conservatives
  Via John Amato at Crooks and Liars, an easy way to understand and thus attack repug faux populism, from Conceptual Gorilla: When you cut right through it, right-wing ideology is just "dime-store economics" - intended to dress their ideology up and make it look respectable. You don't really need to k ...
• Conservatives See "Two Americas" Where There Shoul ...
  The New York Time's Ross Douthat is one of the few civilized conservatives still left in captivity, yet when he attempted to explain away the mass hysteria that's overtaken the nation over the proposed building of an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, the result resembled little more than slapping l ...

Care 2

• ACTION ALERT: Take Action for Truth in Fur Labelin ...
  U.S. law allows clothing designers and retailers to omit, on their labels, any mention of animal fur on fur-trimmed jackets. They are even allowed to dye real fur to make it look fake, and sell it without mentioning on the label that it is real fur. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
• ACTION ALERT: Ban Bear Baying In South Carolina!!! ...
  A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
• ALASKA: The Palin Proxy War
  Perhaps the most intriguing element of this race is the revival of the Palin-Murkowski grudge match. Lisa Murkowski's father Frank, tapped her to fill the Senate seat he vacated in 2002 to become governor of the state. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
• OP-ED: U.S. Occupation of Iraq More Than Doubles ...
  The American public has no idea just how terrible we've made conditions in Iraq. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• GREAT NEWS! Indian tribe's 'Avatar' victory over ...
  A plan by British mining giant Vedanta Resources to dig in the mineral-rich eastern state of Orissa has stalled.Environment authorities on Tuesday rejected proposals to mine the mountain, saying any such activity in that area would jeopardize livelihoods Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Cult ...

Smirking Chimp

• Tea Party favorite continues class war against the ...
  I write a lot about how certain elite (pundits, politicians) have made it their quest to criminalize poverty. David Walker, a lackey of billionaire and Social Security pirate, Pete Peterson, openly pined for the days of debtors' prison, which is actually already a reality in six states . Sen. Orrin ...
• The Administration, the Bloggers, the Homeowners ( ...
  The bloggers who attended briefings from a "senior Treasury Department official" last week have interpreted the concept of "deep background" in several different ways. I attended one of the briefings and initially didn't plan to write about it at all. Others did write about it. One writer named th ...
• Islamo-Gangsterism: In a Deteriorating Afghanistan ...
  KABUL -- "In squads of roaring dirt bikes and armed to the teeth," Joshua Partlow reports in The Washington Post, "Taliban fighters are spreading like a brush fire into remote and defenseless villages across northern Afghanistan." Two other cartoonists and I were a day away from heading to Faryab--a ...
• Prison Rape: The Criminal Justice System's Dirty L ...
  Organizations from across the political spectrum are calling on Attorney General Eric Holder 'to adopt prison rape elimination standards mandated by 2003 legislation and completed 14 months ago.' In June 2005, Marilyn Shirley, told the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission about the horror th ...
• Tomgram: Tony Karon, The Bomb-Iran Debate From Hel ...
  from TomDispatch For Star Trek fans, the news is grim. Some set of maniacs on planet Earth is ready to take all the pleasure out of that low-budget TV show and its ensuing set of big-budget movies. They are actually planning someday to manufacture phasers , ones large enough to vaporize incoming m ...

Paul Krugman

• What About Germany?
  Not much of a miracle.
• Orwell And Social Security
  Privatization, again.
• 2.53
  But Very Serious People said we had to appease the bond vigilantes.
• Yes, $3 Million
  Do the math.
• Hangover Theory At The Fed
  Bad theory where it matters.

No Quarter

• Obama’s Alternate Bizarre Universe
  Just got the following in my inbox. This in a nutshell captures why Barack is in trouble and not likely to recapture his mojo with the American people: “Fathom the odd hypocrisy that President Obama wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but people don’t have to prove they are citizens”. Au ...
• Does Anyone Else Find This Ironic? *Updated*
  Yes, yes, more about the whole mosque thing in New York, though this is about a different aspect of it. And that would be our First Amendment right to free speech. Remember how Obama went on and on about the mosque-builders and freedom of religion, as if this had anything whatsoever to do with free ...
• Obama Endangers Our Troops and Our Mission
  Along with contending with floating crap in the waters off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and the precipice of a double dip recesion, Barack Obama got a sock in the puss from one of his General’s who had the audacity to tell the truth and point out that the Commander in Chief is screwing our [...]
• From BP To You, With Love
  Don’t you just love presents?  Especially ones that keep on giving? Well, here’s a big one from BP.  Given with LOVE, I’m sure.  And it’s a gift that will keep on giving for many years to come. If you think you might just miss out on feeling all that BP love because you’re not a seafood eater [...]
• Personal Attacks * Open Thread
  Based on reports that Larry and the writers are receiving: Let’s make an effort to tone down the nature of the personal attacks on each other, including the language used. Sometimes, even those who are defended say that they don’t like how they’re defended. We’re all for free speech but let’s tem ...

Environmental Graffiti

• The Beautiful Fall Colors of Tasmania's Fagus Tree
  The Autumnal Fire on Tasmania's Mountain Tops: The 'Turning of the Fagus' read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Amazing Uses for Everyday Balloons
  Pop out the facts of these simple wonders we call latex balloons. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Mind Blowing Art by Jason Clay Lewis
  Jason Clay Lewis has been instrumental in green art, using garbage and environmental disasters to convey a strong message in a beautiful, unusual and artistic way. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Incredible Footage From Inside the Eye of a Tornad ...
  More and more unlucky surveillance cameras are capturing incredible video from inside violent tornadoes. These videos will blow you away. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How a Wasp Queen Fights to Become Leader
  A social wasp worker can become a queen, but only if she is dominant. Must she fight to be a leader? What role does honesty play? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Postcard From...Futenma
  Okinawans are nowhere to be seen at this summer's U.S. military appreciation day at the controversial Futenma air base.
• Europe's Favorite Scapegoat: the Roma
  The crime rate of Roma is no higher than the population at large.
• When Demography Shifts From a "Prized Asset" to a ...
  India offers rural couples cash in an attempt to curb overpopulation.
• Oliver Stone: Filming the Bolivarian Zeitgeist
  Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' is a rapid march through the new world of Latin American politics.
• Strangers in Strange Lands
  Before the molten debris at Ground Zero had cooled, heated voices began crafting a new narrative about a quarter of humanity.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Iraq hit by spate of attacks
  At least 29 people killed by bomb attacks in Baghdad and across the country.
• Report: Yemen sacrificing rights
  Amnesty International criticises government for harsh campaigns against rebels, al-Qaeda.
• Deadly battles continue in Somalia
  Third day of fighting in capital Mogadishu leaves at least five people dead.
• Dozens of bodies found in Mexico
  Mexican troops have discovered 72 bodies in a rural area in the north of the country.
• China plane flight recorder found
  Black box recovered as investigation begins into cause of Henan Airlines crash.

Green Inc. - NYT

• BP Oil Spill Has Little Impact on Global Drilling
  Regulators in other countries with heavy deepwater drilling, like Brazil and Norway, have made few changes since the April 20 accident in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Sensible Eaters or Global Guinea Pigs?
  Genetically modified crops are the subject intense political, scientific and culinary debate in Europe, where only the tiniest sliver of cultivation currently relies on GM seeds. Most European countries have no commercial cultivation of GM crops.
• On Our Radar: The Worst Traffic Jam Ever
  The worst traffic jam in the world: drivers trapped in gridlock for ten days and counting along the Beijing-Tibet Expressway. [The Hindu]
• Will Robots Clean Up Future Oil Spills?
  Researchers at M.I.T. have developed a prototype for what could become a swarm of floating, oil-collecting robots.
• Scientists Find Oil-Eating Bacteria Plentiful in D ...
  Oil-eating bacteria exist in significant quantities even in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and may be breaking down submerged oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak faster than previously believed, scientists are reporting today.

Dot Earth News

• The Gates Path to an Energy Revolution
  Bill Gates lays out a path toward a clean-energy future, with sustained money for innovation a core need.
• Climate 'CSI' Team Takes on Russian Heat
  A federal climate science team that seeks causes for extreme events takes on Russia's recent furnace blast.
• Study Finds No Link Tying Disaster Losses to Human ...
  An analysis of 22 studies of trends in climate and disaster losses sees no convincing link.
• Do the Top Billion Need New Goals?
  Do the world's haves need a set of goals to match those established for helping the world's have nots?
• The Fire Down Below
  In the wake of Russia's heat-driven fires, an expert discusses smoldering underground combustion.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• California rolls out heat cannon torture weapon Ac ...
  Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...
• Kanye West Masonic/Egyptian "Power"; Viktor Bout's ...
  "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had the ...
• Barclays Bank: The design of criminal banking oper ...
  Crossposted - Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations 18 August 2010 Court filings: http://cryptome.org/0002/barclays/usa-v-barclays.htm Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/August/10-crm-933.html Department of Ju ...
• LinkBatch for August 19th 2010: In-Q-Tel CIA front ...
  Let's start with the FDA's plan to kill everyone: Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food . Kind of amazed that the Iraq 'combat mission' officially ended, as this seven-year epic dominated my college experience & well basically shaped a whole era. But did FOX ...
• Big Brother GPS tracking nets Epic Dissent from 9t ...
  There is something creepy and un-American about such clandestine and underhanded behavior. To those of us who have lived under a totalitarian regime, there is an eerie feeling of déjà vu. This case, if any, deserves the comprehensive, mature and diverse consideration that an en banc panel can provid ...

Daily Censored

• Everything is for sale!
  From the Chronicle of Higher Education: August 22, 2010 Donor Pledges Dollars if Stephens College Workers Lose Pounds By Ilana Kowarski A Stephens College alumna has promised to give her alma mater $1-million, with one weighty condition: Employees of the women’s college in Columbia, Mo., must lose a ...
• Detroit: We Will Defend Public Education! We Wil ...
    Defend Public Education / Save Our Students met on Friday as scheduled.  First we heard reports from the various schools represented.  We heard about the many teachers who have not received letters rescinding their layoffs and returning them to their schools.  We heard about Teach for Ame ...
• Our Next $680 Billion Dollar Bail-Out
  AND, they don’t even need it. Yesterday I wrote about how the top 2-5% are stealing your money and your jobs.   Today Paul Krugman discussed the new $680 billion bail out that the Republicans are about to push through again.  If you do not want to write a $3,000,000 check to the 120,000 people in ...
• Ground Zero Intolerance
  By Will Shonbrun The controversy over a Muslim community center and mosque being constructed in close proximity to the WTC’s “Ground Zero” is an exercise in bigoted illogic. The argument goes: It was people of the Muslim faith that perpetrated the horrific murders of thousands and therefore a mosque ...
• VIETNAM VETERAN SUICIDE DEATHS
  CENSORED IN 1976: SUICIDES LEAD VIETNAM VETERAN DEATHS While accurate and current statistics from different sources tend to vary, they do agree on one thing — more than twice as many American Vietnam veterans have died after returning home than were killed in the fourteen years of actual combat. The ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Institute for Policy Studies

• Waging Peace from Afar: Divestment and Israeli Occ ...
  A growing grassroots movement is using the techniques of the anti-apartheid movement to challenge U.S. support for Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
• Rotten Egg Farming
  Dirt-cheap protein is a fine ideal that it isn't worth risking our lives.
• The Lineup: Week of August 23-29, 2010
  Our latest editorial package includes an op-ed on the upcoming and lackluster U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and a column by Donald Kaul about unlikely advocates for ditching the Bush tax cuts for the most affluent Americans.
• Fatherless Children
  Single motherhood by choice is challenging but hardly doomed to failure.
• Where's Our Money?
  If Robert Gibbs can't answer the simple question -- where's our money -- voters will do what they usually do in elections and let their pocketbooks determine their choices.

Equality Trust

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• VAT rise would hit the poorest
  Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
• Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
  Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?
• Splendid: government targets second homes
  As reported in today's Daily Telegraph , proposed hike in capital gains tax aims to part-fund increase in tax allowances for those on lower incomes. David Cameron describes second homes as "not .... necessarily splendid" for the economy.

PDA AMERICA

• Video: War On Prayer
  We believe it is time to shine light on the hypocrisy of politicians and pundits who expound on the freedom of religion for their chosen sects while seeking to tell our Muslim brothers and sisters ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 8/13/10 – 8/20/10
  It’s time to focus all our attentions to Florida as two of our nationally endorsed candidates Doug Tudor (FL-12) and Marleine ...
• We need your help!
  Let’s give voters a reason to go to the polls! Dear Friend, On August 24, two of PDA’s endorsed candidates are facing primary elections. Each of these candidates represents PDA’s core values and embraces PDA’s positions. And ...
• What a lineup! August’s ‘The Agitator& ...
  The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 10: Featuring a montage of voices from PDA’s Grassroots Leadership Conference Dear Bryan, Leading lights from the worlds of progressive politics, media, and activism enriched ...
• Video: Terror Babies? Really?
  Rep. Louie Gohmert loses control when Anderson Cooper asks for evidence on the ‘Terror Babies’ Conspiracy. Obviously Rep. Gohmert has no evidence. Anderson did a decent job keeping calm and insisting Gohmert give ...

Marler Blog

• Busy Video Morning on CNN and MSNBC
  I did two of the cable channels before 7:00 AM this morning in between doing three radio shows: �
• The Ag Industry Fries One of Its Own
  Friends and enemies say that I have a less than eclectic reading style – I will read most anything that has my name in it. So, although I may well have been attracted by my name in lights (or at least in the article), I stayed for the smack down delivered on one Mr. Austin “Jack” DeCoster (a.k.a., ...
• CDC Update of Salmonella Enteritidis Infections Li ...
  In May 2010, CDC identified a nationwide increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory laboratories that performs molecular ...
• More than 1,300 Ill and 550,000,000 Salmonella Rec ...
  Yesterday I was speaking with David Hendee of the Omaha World-Herald (along with Larry King, FOX, LA Times, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, KABC, etc.) about the “Eggbarrassment” to the egg industry and to the government for the latest of what seems like a constant stream of foodborne illnesses and food recalls. ...
• An eggspecially busy day!
  In between being interviewed by FOX New York, Seattle and Los Angeles and being taped for the Today story for tomorrow, and doing several other radio and TV interviews - one by Skype and preparing for the Larry King Show in an hour, I had the chance to finish up my slides for a speech that I am givi ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 08.25.10
  Peel looking to reintroduce world's smallest car [w/video] A limited run of just 50 will be made. Well-to-wheel emissions of plug-in-hybrids will be all over the map Coal and natural gas are ...
• AutoblogGreen for 08.24.10
  Demand for gas drops .03% for July, while overall petroleum usage climbs 3.8% Is it the economy or what? New details emerge on BMW's 2013 Megacity vehicle Another OEM looks to the skateboard ...
• AutoblogGreen for 08.23.10
  Fisker's new ad: Karma is "Designed to get you hot, not the planet" Look at the curves. EV sellers will have to teach drivers to treat their car like their phone, plug it in! New habits die ...
• AutoblogGreen for 08.20.10
  Does driving make you fat? Can public transportation, biking and walking keep you skinny? Wouldn't hurt to take the A Train, apparently. One stock analyst says Tesla will fail like internet groceries ...
• AutoblogGreen for 08.19.10
  Greenlings: Why do automatic transmissions now get better fuel efficiency than manuals? Going from fluid coupling to Lock-up converters to DCTs has a big effect. Paris 2010 preview: Kia adding fizz with a ...

Rafe's Radar

• CNET to the Rescue: Leave the world behind
  If you're heading out of town and leaving the electronic world behind, don't forget that your e-mail contacts, Facebook friends, and Farmville plants will still be expecting to see you around online, interacting with them. Here are some tips for managing your electronic world when you step away ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: Net neutrality
  Today we're talking about an issue that's been in the news a lot in the past few days: Net neutrality -- the concept of a network infrastructure that is nondiscriminatory when it comes to types and sources and the content of Internet traffic. To support Net neutrality is to support freedom, o ...
• CNET to the Rescue: How to look sharp
  We've got an interesting topic to talk about before getting into questions today. It's how to look good in your pictures. Dating site OkCupid has aggregated 11.4 million opinions on what its members classify as "great" or otherwise attractive photos. Listen now: Download today's podcast ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: Security report on Black Ha ...
  We sent three reporters to the dual security conferences, Black Hat and Defcon , last week in Las Vegas. Each has a different coverage area and perspective: Elinor Mills is CNET's security reporter. Declan McCullagh covers government and policy, and Seth Rosenblatt is an editor and reviewer for C ...
• CNET to the Rescue: Cleaning up the cable mess
  Today we get wrapped up in cables. We're talking about the best ways to manager an unruly rat's nest of data and power wires into a thing of beauty and logic. With bonus rat's nest pictures from listeners--so watch the video for the full experience. Also, questions about moving from and to Andro ...

Camera Obscura

• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
• Dangerous spaces: Safe.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

• Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA tonight at 7 p ...
  Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Monday, August 23rd at 7pm Eastern Time.
• WATCH: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA
  Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appeared on CNN’s John King, USA , on Friday, August 20th at 7pm Eastern Time.
• Amy Goodman to appear tonight on CNN's _John King, ...
  Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Friday, August 20th at 7pm Eastern Time.
• Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA
  Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNNâs John King, USA , on Thursday, August 19th at 7pm Eastern Time.
• Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
  Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Thursday, August 19th at 7pm Eastern Time.

Farming Pathogens

• Imperial Storm Scientists
  The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...
• Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
  The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...
• Influenza’s Historical Present
  I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
• The Alan Greenspan Strain
  First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
• King Leopold’s Pandemic
  The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...

Suzie-Q

• Blair’s “Journey” — Where ...
  Tony Blair will be signing copies of his forthcoming book, “My Journey”, in Waterstones (big British bookshop chain like Barnes and Noble), Piccadilly, on 8th September. Might even show up myself to kick up a stink! Blair has vowed to give the advance of £4.6 million to the Royal British Legion, an ...
• There Are No Heroes in Illegal and Immoral Wars
  by Robert Jensen, CommonDreams.org, August 23, 2010 When the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division rolled out of Iraq last week, the colonel commanding the brigade told a reporter that his soldiers were “leaving as heroes.” While we can understand the pride of professional soldiers and the emot ...
• Who Actually Owns BP?
  Too many sites fail to mention who owns a whopping 28.34% of BP—more than the other 9 out of the top 10 together. That would be Wall Street’s JPMorgan Chase. And that certainly explains why our own government has offered mostly limp and phony bluster and coverup as BP has done pretty much whatever i ...
• Gainesville Pastors Plan Readings From Quran In Re ...
  Republicans Whip Anti-Muslim Hysteria While Gainesville Pastors Plan Readings From Quran in Response to Planned Burning FDL- By: Jim White Saturday August 21, 2010 7:21 am On September 12, at least sixteen Gainesville area pastors will read from the Quran as a response to the Gainesville church that ...
• Israel and Palestinians to resume peace talks in W ...
  Hillary Clinton hopes a peace agreement can be reached within a year, in first direct negotiations since 2008 Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 August 2010 16.59 BST Israel and the Palestinians are to resume direct peace talks next month, Hillary Clinton has announced. The US sec ...

Solari

• Banked Billions Spark Tech Takeover Shopping Spree
  By David Goldman, Cash is king, and Big Tech companies have it pouring out their ears. A combination of cost-cutting tactics and an improving economic climate have driven tech-sector profits way up this year. In the second quarter, technology industry earnings are on track to rise 66% compared to l ...
• Pre-Crime Technology To Be Used In Washington D.C.
  By Steve Watson Law enforcement agencies in Washington D.C. have begun to use technology that they say can predict when crimes will be committed and who will commit them, before they actually happen. The Minority Report like pre-crime software has been developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the ...
• The Homebuyer Tax Credit Created A Huge Distortion
  By Joe Weisenthal Continue reading the article . . .
• Stefan Molyneux w/Max
  YouTube On the Edge with Stefan Molyneux (2/3) On the Edge with Stefan Molyneux (3/3)
• Bjork Takes On Magma to Stop Takeover of Iceland&# ...
  By Omar R. Valdimarsson Singer-songwriter Björk Gudmundsdottir is spearheading a push that one poll shows is backed by 85 percent of Icelanders to put foreign energy takeovers to referenda if enough people oppose the deals. The popular movement would block an acquisition by Canada’s Magma Energy Co ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
  BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
  Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Glenn Beck's Racism Is an Affront to MLK's "I ...
  Despite his lame efforts to try to capitalize on the MKL legacy at an upcoming DC rally, Glen Beck can not hide his deep seated racism.
• How Liberal Mosque Defenders Are Playing into the ...
  Consider the troublesome terms and conditions upon which Park51 has emerged a defensible endeavor within liberal discourse.
• Latino Baseball Fans Divided on AZ Boycott
  Protesters have been chanting outside every Diamondbacks' game since Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law.
• Are the Right-Wingers Stoking Islam Fury Invested ...
  The right-wing freak-out over the Islamic community center hurts U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. Think they care?
• What Happened When Two Codepink Activists Were Inv ...
  "It felt surreal to be inside the home of Erik Prince, the founder, owner and chairman of Blackwater." (With video).

Sideways News

• Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
  The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign , challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
  Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
  Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project .
• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
  The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
• 10 green resolutions to save you money
  By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...

Fabius Maximus

• The face of America’s decline
  Summary:  Sometimes a news story not only makes visible an important historical trend, but puts a human face to it.  Here we at Mark Hurd, until recently CEO of HP.  Look and see the face of America’s economic decline. Excerpt from “The Real Reason for Ousting H.P.âs Chief“, Joe Nocera, New Yo ...
• Another perspective on the future of the Marine Co ...
  Summary:  A guest post by Bill Woods (officer USMC, retired), a follow-up to Why a Marine Corps? by GI Wilson and  H. Thomas Hayden. Your central theme that Marine amphibious capabilities lend themselves to a wide variety of operations other than “amphibious assaults on fortified coastlines” is ...
• Brad Delong wields the delete key to maintain the ...
  Summary:  It’s his website, and can delete comments at will.  But the persistent deleting comments that challenge the faith of their flock shows insecurity.  Or perhaps awareness that his (and their) faith rests on weak foundations.  Deleting comments is a common practice among leftists and AG ...
• Sad news about the CIA
  Summary:  The CIA used to overthrow governments.  Now they cannot even frame a rape charge against the leader of Wikileaks.  Here are some useful sources about still-breaking story of what looks like an attempted frame of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.  Soon we’ll see what the US news media ...
• Why a Marine Corps?
  Summary:  G.I. Wilson and guest author H. Thomas Hayden explain why America needs a Marine Corps.  As GW said on elsewhere, “The USMC’s future lies its creative intellect, professionalism in the study and application of maneuver warfare, and delivering what the Nation needs post in a crisis b ...

Open Your Eyes News

• U.S. Judge Rules Against Obama’s Stem Cell Policy
  New York Times — A federal district judge on Monday blocked President Obama’s 2009 executive order that expanded embryonic stem cell research, saying it violated a ban on federal money being used to destroy embryos. In his ruling, Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Federal District Court for the Dist ...
• Combat brigades in Iraq under different name
  Army Times – As the final convoy of the Armyâs 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., entered Kuwait early Thursday, a different Stryker brigade remained in Iraq. Soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division are deployed in Iraq as members o ...
• U.S. Weighs Expanded Strikes in Yemen
  Wall Street Journal – U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration will mount a more intense targeted killing program in Yemen..Such a move would give the ...
• UK: Avastin prolongs life but drug is too expensiv ...
  The Guardian – Cancer drug can help patients with advanced bowel cancer but treatment costs £21,000. Campaigners last night criticised the health watchdog after it ruled that a drug was too expensive to be prescribed on the NHS â despite evidence that it can prolong life in bowel cancer patients. ...
• Baghdad blast kills 11
  ABC – A suicide truck bomber has killed at least 11 people and wounded 34 others in an attack on a police station in the Iraqi capital. The blast took place in Baghdad’s northern Qahira district, security sources said Read Article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in ...
  Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in Nigeria and the Third World (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Cholera has killed 87 and infected 1,315 over the past month in Nigeria. The two northern states affected most are Bauchi and Borno. In Bauchi alone 47 are dead and 1,200 infected. Born ...
• O sekciarstwie
  O sekciarstwie (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polski) (English) „Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza strona internetowa jest sekciarska. Krytykujecie tak wiele innych grup. Jak można traktować was poważnie? * Dziękujemy za twoje pytanie. Wielu liberałów bierze krytykę wobec innych grup za de ...
• A spy and the use and abuse of history
  A spy and the use and abuse of history (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Poland is likely to extradite Uri Brodsky to Germany. Uri Brodsky  is suspected of being part of an Israeli death squad that has recently been in the spotlight. The Israeli agent, likely a member of a Mossad hit team, was inv ...
• Israel “purchasing” advanced aircraft from U.S. fo ...
  Israel âpurchasingâ advanced aircraft from U.S. for Use Against Iran (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Israel is purchasing roughly 20 F-35I strike jets from the United States. Four billion dollars will be used to purchase the Lockheed Martin “Joint Strike Fighters,” along with services, parts ...
• Who and What are Trotsky-cons?

  [An earlier, choppier version of this article was published in September 2006 under a slightly different title. It was removed shortly after its original publication for various reasons.  The article has been cleaned up in the newer version.  Parts of the article may seem dated with the passing of t ...

PakAlert

• Video: Signs of the Appearance of Dajjal the Antic ...
  This video is based on research and analysis of the Hadith concerning The Dajjal - Antichrist. I based this video on the hadith Narrated by An-Nawwas ibn Sam'an who said: Allah's Apostle (s.a.w.s) mentioned of the Dajjal one day in the morning.. When the Prophet was Describing Dajjal, He said: "He ...
• Kanye West’s “Power”: The Occult Meaning of its Sy ...
  Kanye West’s “Power” is a short, almost stationary video that manages to tell a profound story in symbolic language. By decoding the occult meaning of the symbols present in this moving tableau, the viewer discovers who really holds the “power” in the world and understands the story of Kanye West’s ...
• Videos: Survival Scenarios – Prepare For The Worst
  For all who have some sense of the worldclock it is obvious that very troublesome destructive times are right in front of us. It is clear that our time is up and we must do whatever we can, to find shelter and make sure we survive. Make no mistake, it truly is every man for himself. I will try to ...
• Walking dead: Ongoing BP Gulf disaster may be kill ...
  “I think the media now has to...tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf." - Hugh Kaufman, senior EPA analyst, admits millions have been poisoned in the Gulf states. A biochemical bomb went off in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010—a bomb tha ...
• 1934 Film ‘The House Of Rothschild’ – Videos
  If you are even semi-awake to the Zionist threat this movie will blow your mind (I had to pick my jaw up several times). While this 1930ish Hollywood movie is only semi-accurate it certainly shows more then the PTB would like you to know today. I think this film was made as a response to the anti-R ...

Andy Worthington

• Ramadan Force-Feeding, and Renewed Secrecy Surroun ...
  In a disturbing report in the Miami Herald, the ever-vigilant Carol Rosenberg reports that an unknown number of hunger strikers at Guantánamo are being force-fed between dusk and dawn — a mixture of cruelty (force-feeding) and respect (for Ramadan) that is sadly typical of the surreal, otherworldly ...
• Bin Laden Cook Expected to Serve Two More Years at ...
  On August 11, Ibrahim al-Qosi, a 51-year old former cook and driver for Osama bin Laden, was given a 14-year sentence by a military jury, after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy, and one count of providing material support to terrorism at an earlier hearing on July 7, as I reported here. Th ...
• London Guantánamo Campaign Asks Supporters to Writ ...
  The following article was published by the London Guantánamo Campaign on their new website, and I’m cross-posting it here in the hope of reaching new readers who may not have come across it, as its message is particularly strong during Ramadan. Readers may also want to consider writing to prisoners ...
• I’m Back, and Catching Up on Two Weeks of Guantána ...
  Yesterday, I was in Napoli, sipping sweet, strong coffee, munching on a sfogliatella (delicious ricotta and candied fruit wrapped in a flaky pastry shell), and sweating in the humid 35-degree heat from which there was little or no escape. A week in this mind-bending city — crumbling and filthy, on t ...
• Apparently, they don’t have wireless broadband in ...
  So thatâs it, Iâll be out of touch until I tire of the pre-21st century isolation, and head into town for un caffé (o due), some dolci and somewhere with internet access. Iâm away in Italy â- a remote location in Puglia the first week, a rooftop apartment in Napoli the second — so contact [ ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Tapping into the Electric Power of Heat
  Converting waste heat into electricity cuts power costs around the world. A new U.S. firm seeks to give the idea a high-tech boost. Electricity - Energy - Technology - United States - Business
• "Snot Otter" Sperm to Save Giant Salamander?
  To save North America's biggest salamander, conservationists are freezing its sperm, which luckily comes "pouring out of the animal." Giant salamander - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Chordata - Animalia
• Ocean Garbage Patch Not Growing—Where's "Missing" ...
  The "soup" of plastic trash in the North Atlantic hasn't gotten thicker in two decades, says a new study that's puzzling ocean scientists. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Atlantic Ocean - Oceanography - North Atlantic - Earth Sciences
• Photos: Honeycomb Clouds "Communicate," Rain in Un ...
  NoneLike blinking fireflies, some marine clouds "communicate" with each other, forming, raining, and re-forming in unison, a new study says. Rain - Cloud - Business - Arts - Works
• Giant Underwater Plume Confirmed—Gulf Oil Not Degr ...
  A giant plume from BP's Gulf of Mexico spill has been confirmed deep in the ocean—and there are signs it may stick around, a new study says. Gulf of Mexico - BP - Oil spill - Environment - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Landmark Ruling Last Week that YOU may not have he ...
  Zach Carter takes note of recent ruling in a case that shows pretty clearly how the banks, not just Wells Fargo BUT all banks, purposely rigged their overdraft system against you: Wells Fargo Overdraft Scam Makes Elizabeth Warren More Important Than Ever A landmark court ruling on Wells Fargo's ou ...
• Just between Bluegal and me...
  I'd still say Bluegal and her own blogging Wonder Woman personae wins hands down regardless of her twitter note and in almost any photoshop contest up. My effort, a much deserved kick at The Economist can be found at ePluribus Media (+++ a bit more) while Bluegal's vastly superior effort can ...
• Image of a word bomb
  If a picture is worth a thousand words than this one speaks volumes about where a pretty darn liberal America is right now: Though I embrace many of the progressive ideas that those who have embraced the name "progressive" espouse, I have always preferred to stick to the name liberal. For the mos ...
• For those who argued against Catholic Parishioners ...
  to the Catholic Church... Is it more than just political donations and actions that the church is trying to hide? A Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut has been arrested on charges he stole $1.3 million in church money over seven years to use for male escorts, expensive clothing, and luxury hotel ...
• Not that we should Wonder about McMahon's 5$ bount ...
  But it kind of has to make ya wonder what McMahons' real intentions were when she put a bounty on college students' registration : DA to team with Secretary of State on voter registration probe A Register investigation published Friday online and in Sunday’s newspaper exposed how signature gather ...

SPL Center

• Paul Fromm: The Lonely Voice of Canadian Hate
  Last week, a slew of Canadian media outlets reported that the country’s most notorious white supremacist, Paul Fromm, had organized a protest against a boat of Tamil asylum seekers docked near Victoria, British Columbia. In a rare group show of interest in Fromm’s thoughts, the Canadian press allowe ...
• Some Dare Call It Conspiracy: The John Birch Socie ...
  Last Thursday morning, the contents of the Fall 2010 issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report were posted online at splcenter.org. By four o’clock that afternoon, an online magazine called The New American had responded with a critical appraisal of the issue’s feature exploring ...
• The Prince and the Pea: Oklahoma Mass Murderer’s T ...
  Talk about delusional. Terry Nichols continues to believe that he is a princess in a high castle, and not a Supermax prisoner serving multiple life sentences for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people, including 19 children. Once ...
• Fugitives with Ties to Aryan Brotherhood Captured
  A SWAT team captured escaped inmate John McCluskey and his fiancée Casslyn Welch in an Arizona national forest this morning, peacefully ending a three-week manhunt. Aided solely by Welch and a pair of wire cutters, McCluskey and two other inmates escaped from a private prison in Arizona on July 30. ...
• Antigovernment ‘Patriots’: ‘Are You Willing to Kil ...
  The Forces of Freedom are ready for war. Last week, about 100 self-described âPatriotsâ and âstrict Constitutionalistsâ gathered in a hotel ballroom in Valley Forge, Pa., for the American Policy Centerâs Freedom Action National Conference. United by rage at a federal government they believ ...

change: org.

• Need to Test Your Laser Beam Weapon? Try it On Pri ...
  A seven-foot-tall laser gun is ready for its first non-military use in the U.S., and the lucky prisoners of a Los Angeles County jail will be the first people in its crosshairs . The weapon, called an Assault Intervention System, was unveiled Friday, where corrections officers showed it off for repo ...
• An Important Branding Lesson From a Chipotle Ad
  The big game for many social ventures is changing underlying patterns of consumption to create a more sustainable world. Whether they're a new tea company trying to reshape how people engage with the people who produce their beverages or a clothing company trying to source ethically, their biggest c ...
• Anti-Gay Money Would Be Better Used Elsewhere
  Proposition 8 has been an emotional and an expensive journey. After the appeal process, we will hopefully be right back where we were before the proposition, with gay and lesbian couples enjoying the freedom to marry in California (and beyond). So it makes you think what it would have been like if t ...
• Fox News' Terrorist Ties
  If you've been following the controversy over the Park51 Islamic community center, you've probably heard at least a snippet of the right-wing's incessant questioning over where the funding for the structure is coming from, and if it isn't really coming from terrorist sympathizers. Fox News in partic ...
• Driving Under the Influence of Dogs is as Dangerou ...
  For many dogs, "Wanna go for a ride?" is right up there with "Want a cookie?" when it comes to phrases that make ears perk and tails wag. In fact, a recent study by AAA found that 80 percent of drivers bring their pets along for car rides. But it turns out that dogs aren't the best co-pilots, after ...

Common Dreams -News

• GOP: Staunch Defenders of Constitution... When It ...
  by Bob Evans WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia won his seat in Congress campaigning as a strict defender of the Constitution. He carries a copy in his pocket and is particularly fond of invoking the Second Amendment right to bear arms. But it turns out there are parts of the doc ...
• Pro-Environment Groups Outmatched, Outspent in Bat ...
  by Evan Mackinder It was supposed to be their time. With significant majorities in Congress, a president promising action and favorable public opinion all on their side, many environmentalists believed their political stars had properly -- and finally -- aligned.  Sensing the unique opportunity to ...
• As Floodwaters Recede, Anger Grows in Northwest Pa ...
  by Saaed Shah CHARSADDA, Pakistan - In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool. "This was our house," the 30-year-old Sirajuddin, ...
• Obama Plays Down Plan for Post-2011 Iraq Troop Pre ...
  by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, critics associated with the U.S. command attacked the transition plan, insist ...
• US Military 'Overwhelmed' by Mental Health Problem ...
  by Gregg Zoroya FORT HOOD, Texas - Nine months after an Army psychiatrist was charged with fatally shooting 13 soldiers and wounding 30, the nation's largest Army post can measure the toll of war in the more than 10,000 mental health evaluations, referrals or therapy sessions held every month. r ...

Lifehacker

• Get Free Study Guide Ebooks from Kaplan Through Au ...
  Got plans to study for the ACT, SAT, GRE, GMAT, MCAT, or any other of the rather large number of standardized tests that people generally brush up on? Test prep company Kaplan is handing out free ebooks through August 30th to anyone with an iP ...
• Last Tab Standing Keeps Chrome Alive After You Clo ...
  Windows/Linux (with Chrome): By default, Google Chrome exits the entire program when you've closed the last tab. Chrome extension Last Tab Standing prevents this from happening by opening an empty new tab page when you close your last tab. ...
• Nine Great Uses for Private Browsing that Don't In ...
  Call it what you like—private browsing mode, Incognito mode—most people still just consider private browsing features in web browsers "porn mode". But your private browsing feature is useful for a whole lot more than covering porn habits. M ...
• Chrome to iPhone Sends Links to your iOS Device fr ...
  Chrome: The Chrome to iPhone extension adds a handy button to your Google Chrome toolbar that, when clicked, quickly shares your current URL between your desktop browser and iOS device. More��
• Hide the Contacts and Tasks Links (for Good This T ...
  When Google updated Contacts in Gmail , they also added prominence to Contacts and Tasks in the sidebar. A lot of people didn't like that, but the button that hid Contacts and Tasks didn't work (a known bug ). Now it does. So if you were parti ...

Water Privatization

• Bubbling Potential in Chinese Water and Wastewater ...
  Despite the economic recession, 2009 proved a productive year for the Chinese water and wastewater treatment market. With an increasing daily wastewater treatment capacity of 1.5 million tons, and total revenue of about $7.3 billion in the equipment market, the market is set to accelerate in the upc ...
• Candidate urges public leadership
  Solutions to the state's worst problems shouldn't originate from anyone in a leadership position.
• Streamline public sector
  The assurance given by Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa that privatization would not be carried out willy-nilly is most welcome indeed. We say this because even former President Chandrika Kumaratunga made similar pledges in keeping with her party policy of State ownership of enterprises.
• Psst, Hey Buddy, Wanna Buy Fair Park?
  If they could just sell downtown, maybe it'd be a happening place. Fair Park - Shopping - Sports - Arts and Entertainment - Funfairs
• Looking at Pier 40 with a fresh eye, group seeks u ...
  A new ad hoc committee on Pier 40 has been formed at the Hudson River Park Trust to come up with ideas to renovate and redevelop the critical but crumbling 14-acre pier.

Guardian

• MI6 worker found murdered in London flat
  • Man found dead in sports bag in bath of London townhouse • Body was decomposing and had been stabbed, reports say Police are investigating the murder of an apparent intelligence agent whose body was found stuffed into a sports bag in the bath of his London flat. A postmortem examination will be he ...
• Suspected drug cartel victims found
  Corpses of 58 men and 14 women discovered after gun battle in northern state of Tamaulipas Mexican marines have found the bodies of 72 people dumped at a rural northern location after a gun battle with suspected drug cartel members that left one marine and three suspects dead, the navy has reported. ...
• John McCain wins Arizona primary
  Former presidential candidate triumphs against Tea Party-backed talkshow host with a little help from Sarah Palin The former Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, has repulsed a challenge from rightwing conservatives by defeating a talk-radio personality in the Arizona primary. The Tea Par ...
• Gillard and Abbott meet kingmakers
  Labor and Liberal party leaders aim to convince three MPs that they are best placed to deliver stable government The two political leaders vying to become Australia's next prime minister will meet three key independent MPs today to discuss who can best provide stable leadership after weekend electio ...
• S&P cuts Ireland's long-term rating
  Ratings agency Standard and Poor's have downgraded Ireland over concerns about the cost of bailing out its banking sector Ireland's national debt management agency has hit back at the decision of Standard & Poor's (S&P) to downgrade the country's ratings on concerns about the high cost of bailing ou ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: GOP's message is clouded by crazy Obam ...
  Republicans can set off political dynamite this fall.
• Commentary: Bill of Rights includes us all
  Boy, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Here I was, about to join the indignant masses in loud opposition to the mosque being built at ground zero, when I actually decided to do what many of the opponents apparently haven't done: I studied the issue.
• Florida upset: Rick Scott defeats Bill McCollum in ...
  Business executive and political newcomer Rick Scott narrowly defeated Attorney General Bill McCollum in the Republican primary for Florida governor, the Associated Press reported late Tuesday.
• Memories still vivid on Mississippi coast of Katri ...
  BILXOI, Miss. — Robert Latham spent Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005, riding along U.S. 90 from Jackson County to Hancock County along Mississippi's Gulf Coast, marveling at the number of people grilling, swimming and playing volleyball on the beach. They seemed oblivious to the monster storm that churned in ...
• Boehner and Biden in economics dispute as election ...
  WASHINGTON — In a preview of campaign themes for fall's congressional elections, Vice President Joe Biden and House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner dueled Tuesday over how to fix the ailing economy, with Biden saying that progress has been steady even if slow, and Boehner sharply d ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Mea culpa and au revoir
  As several readers have pointed out in comments on my previous post , and several more by e-mail, I made a schoolboy howler in this week's article about how rice yields are responding to temperature rise in Asia. There are 101 reasons I could bore you with as to why it happened, but essentially it ...
• Delivering biochar's triple win
  Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar . Accounts would be exchanged of articles half-read and half-digested...the pros would be arrayed against the cons...the words ...
• Noaa: The right answer to the wrong question?
  While listening to the latest briefing on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak , I've been wondering whether the questions being answered are the right ones. The key factoid presented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) is that about three-quarters of the 4.9 million barrels that e ...
• An equal partnership with the land?
  The journal Nature this week debates one of the most important questions of our age: how can we feed the Earth's growing population such that no-one goes hungry and nature is left with some land and water of its own? Being a science journal, you'll not be surprised to hear that one of the things it ...
• Climate campaigns down the pan
  Apologies issued by two campaign groups, WWF and Oxfam , may or may not bring to a close one of the more bizarre yet telling episodes that have materialised within the UN climate convention. At the convention's annual two-week session in June in Bonn , activists removed the nameplate of the Saudi A ...

The Wonk Room

• What States Have To Do To Fix The Exchanges
  CBPP’s Sarah Lueck has put out a paper detailing how the weak regulations surrounding the state-based exchanges could allow insurers to potentially game the system and undermine the effectiveness of reform. The fear is that insurers will lure younger and healthier people into less regulated policies ...
• The New Climate Denier Fad: Ocean Acidification De ...
  As oceanic CO2 rises, pH falls. The burning of billions of tons of fossil fuels is altering our planet — not only by making our atmosphere trap more heat, but also by changing the chemistry of the ocean. Most of the carbon dioxide pollution put into the air is absorbed by the world’s oceans. Dissolv ...
• Key Republicans Try To Clean GOP Image On Spanish- ...
  Earlier today, the Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel reported that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele “distanced the Republican Party from SB-1070″ in an interview with Univision. Steele attempted to reassure Latino viewers that Arizona’s new immigration law is not “a reflection of ...
• Former McCain Aide Holtz-Eakin Stands Up For Insur ...
  Former McCain campaign aide, CBO Director, and current GOP policy intellectual Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a provocative editorial in Kaiser Health News in which he completely dismisses the notion that health insurers should be prohibited from deducting taxes that have nothing to do with providing heal ...
• Toomey: ‘I’ve Never Said I Favor Priva ...
  Last week, Pennsylvania’s Republican candidate for Senate, Pat Toomey, touted his plan for privatizing Social Security, without actually using the word privatization. “Iâve got a whole chapter in a book that I wrote that deals with how I think, one of the ways I think we could reform Social Securi ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Sympathy For The Devil?
  Okay, somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, I don't follow Canadian personalities as much as I do Miley Cyrus, but there's some half-witted shit-back named Kory Tennuckooluck or something, who wants to bring Glenn Beck to Canada so that he can fellate him and then they can both snort cocaine off of ...
• G-20 Anatomy
  Saturday's Toronto Star had an " Anatomy of the G20 " that described the confluence of circumstances that led to the police overreacting to the Black Block rioters and curtailing the civil, political, and legal rights of hundreds of innocent people. I found the whole thing a stupid waste of time. L ...
• Toronto Election: Ford or Smitherman?
  Indicative of the intellectual bankruptcy of Canadian politics in general is the Toronto mayoral race where the front-runner is the shithead Toronto Sun's golden slab of rancid pork Rob Ford and the great white hope of the "liberals" is George Smitherman (who Ford rightly slammed for having presided ...
• Paradox
  Canadians didn't seem to care about the state's abuse of our civil, legal, and political rights at the G-20 because it didn't really affect them directly. But why do they go along with, or even agree with the assaults on our freedoms from the asinine war on terrorism? Most Canadians are never going ...
• Well, That Sucked.
  So what was the turn-out at the rally "demanding" a public inquiry into the $1 Billion dollars worth of incompetence and brutality at the G20? You remember that one don't you? It was in all the papers. Remember stephen harper, before blowing $16 billion on new fighter-planes to protect us from Al ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• DOL's ARB announces two new members and new briefi ...
  The U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has issued a letter announcing the appointment of two new judges, and a new policy on briefing schedules. The two new judges are Joanne Royce and Luis Corchado. Royce previously worked for the Government Accountability Project (GAP) an ...
• Filipino whistleblower protection prompts more dis ...
  The new president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III (pictured), has granted security guarantees to a group of whistleblowers under the Witness Protection Program. Now those whistleblowers are disclosing more information about corruption under the prior administration. GMA News TV is reporting t ...
• Remembering Beth Daley
  Beth Daley was a champion for environmental whistleblowers, and a passionate advocate for government oversight.� She is particularly remembered for her work holding oil companies accountable for their environmental compliance and honesty in government contracts. As a strategist for whistleblower l ...
• Stephen Kohn to appear on C-Span tomorrow at 8:30 ...
  NWC Executive Director, Stephen M. Kohn, will appear on C-Span’s Washington Journal tomorrow at 8:30 am EST. He will be discussing the stalled Congressional Whistleblower Protection Act showcased in a recent Politico article and other whistleblower issues.  Viewers will have the opportunity to ask q ...
• Who are The Other Guys?
  The initial premise of the new Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg movie is that when the real action hero cops (played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson) fall flat, then the New York Police Unit will have to turn to "The Other Guys" to fight crime. The film is well cast to take advantag ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

• Election Watcher Files Affidavit Saying He Saw Seq ...
  lavi d points us to a report from Jim March, on the Tucson Free Unix Group email list, claiming that he witnessed potentially illegal activity in observing part of the Arizona mail-in vote scanning operation in Maricopa County. He summarizes the issue thusly: Basically, we caught Maricopa Count ...
• Lexmark, HP Using Patent Law To Try To Block Repla ...
  Want to know why it would cost $5.9 billion to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool with printer ink? Perhaps look to our beloved US patent laws. Five years ago, we pointed out that HP was claiming that refill ink cartridges for its printers violated its patents , and that it was building up a team ...
• Digitizing Your Own Books Becoming Popular In Japa ...
  Tim O'Reilly points us to a new report out of Japan, noting that it's becoming increasingly popular for people to digitize their own books (a practice called "jisui"). Yes, they're taking books they legally own and scanning them, so that they can store them as ebooks, and read them on various devic ...
• ACS:Law To Face Disciplinary Tribunal
  Earlier this year, we noted that two lawyers from Davenport Lyons, who were among the first law firms to dive into the mass automated "pay us or we'll sue" pre-settlement letter business with copyright infringement claims, were facing disciplinary action in the UK for those activities. What seemed ...
• NY Times Comes Out In Favor Of Fixing Small Parts ...
  A bit of a surprise, but the NY Times editorial board has come out in favor of making two specific changes to copyright law , in response to two separate issues recently discussed here. Both are in response to the recent NY Times story (that we discussed ) concerning the treasure trove of jazz musi ...

VacTruth

• Part II: Rockefeller Vaccine Secret Revealed
  Many people understand the Rockefellers, along with corporate interests, manipulate the United States money supply through the private Federal Reserve Bank. The Rockefeller Institution also had heavy influence pushing through a vaccine as the only answer to the false-flag polio epidemic.
• Penn and Teller kick out at anti vaccine lobby
  In a recently released video 'Penn and Teller Bullshit – Vaccination', the pair of magicians Penn and Teller, use their usual male chauvinistic and pratt like abilities, to go all out to prove to the world that vaccines are safe, that they have eradicated illnesses, that they are super efficient and ...
• Autistic girl uses laptop to break silence
  A child displaying autistic behaviours suddenly, at aged eleven, broke out of her autistic state and with the help of a computer, describe exactly what was making her act in this way. Here suddenly was the breakthrough that scientists have been waiting for.
• Mothers are killing their Autistic children
  Support and care for the families with an autistic child is a battle daily. Often they feel isolated from friends and family who do not understand and with no one to understand they feel pressured to take the only way they can see out of their situation.
• Parents in China were beaten when they tried to ge ...
  In March 2010 it was reported From the New York Times that China had been selling 'tainted vaccines'. These vaccines had not had adequate storage and yet were sold to the public of China, subsequently allowing the vaccines to be administered to children. As a result, as many as eighty children suffe ...

BroadSnark

• Wondering About Wage Labor
  I generally stay away from economics, as I’m still doing my 101.  But I’ve been pondering some things and hope you might share your wisdom with me. If you read my post on How I Became an Anarchist, you know that it was facing the corrupting influence of organizational hierarchies that finally pushe ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Really important post over at Womanist Musings on the rape of an elderly woman and how we treat rape in general – in society, in the media… Read it. And then there are the perpetrators.  Or are they victims? Smoke em if you got em, ladies.  Looks like weed might treat breast cancer. Speaking of sm ...
• Who Will Notice?
  I met a Palestinian woman who came to the United States for her graduate degree.  She picked the U.S. because she wanted to see imperialism from the inside.  She wanted to understand the richest, most powerful country on earth.  Imagine her surprise when she learned that the kind of economic develop ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  You have probably heard about the seven year old whose lemonade stand was protected by anarchists and who subsequently raised enough cash to go to Disney.  Somehow I think that little girl will never have a bad view of anarchists. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, this article explains perfec ...
• Where are the Men Do-Gooders?
  I signed up to be a literacy tutor with an organization here in DC.  The program requires a half day training class.  Looking around at the other trainees, I noticed a huge gender imbalance.  Sure enough, the trainer soon confirmed that, while 55% of the learners are male, only 22% of the tutors are ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, August 21, 2010
  Dark Age, or LaRouche's Big Idea, NAWAPA?
• Sykes-Picot Redux: Will London's Puppet Israel Soo ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, August 20, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 32
• Wall Street Is Not Dying; It is Dead! Please Don't ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, August 20, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 32
• Learn from NAWAPA: Mind or Body?
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, August 20, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 32
• Likd Nero and Hitler: Obama Is a Failed Personalit ...
  Interview with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, August 20, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 32

Armies of Liberation

• The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
  As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
• بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
  مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
• السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
  اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة ...
• Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
  Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
• Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
  Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

• Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
• Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
  Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
• Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
  Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
• NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
  John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
• Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
  Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

• USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
  In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
• Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
  Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
• Farm to School Needs More Support
  It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
• Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
  Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
• USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
  The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...

treehugger

• Engineer Designs 182 Square Foot Boat-In-a-Basemen ...
  Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times Rebecca Teagarden of the Seattle Times visits Steve Sauer's 182 square foot basement apartment. The 6'-2" tall engineer designs airplane interiors for Boeing, but notes a different inspiration: "The greatest innovation anywhere for space is boats. Eve ...
• Peak Oil Alarm Raised By Secret Government Talks
  Image credit: AZrainman Could government finally be waking up to the threat of peak oil? When a government minister attended a peak oil conference as a "keynote listener" , I perhaps unkindly cited it as evidence that miracles do happen. But despite warnings of peak oil in 5 years from Richard ...
• Clayton's i-house 2.0: Reading Between The Lines T ...
  Preston at Jetson Green shows us Clayton Homes' i-house 2.0, a larger version of their green modern prefab introduced two years ago (and seen in TreeHugger here ). It is a handsome design, beautifully presented. But while Preston says that "I-house has been insanely popular", another source note ...
• Is Industrial Monoculture the Real Path to Sustain ...
  Image credit: Amanda Friedman/ NRDC Some have been wondering whether Obama is really on the side of sustainable farming or industrial agriculture . Others, however, are busy wondering whether industrial agriculture really is sustainable farming after all. In a provocative piece written for the ...
• Backyard Chicken Keepers Help Fight Avian Disease
  Image credit: Biosecurity for Birds/USDA From virtual chicken-rescue on Facebook to designer chicken coops for urban hipsters , the concept of backyard chicken keeping has really taken off. Now the USDA is calling on all backyard chicken keepers to join the fight against avian diseases—and they ...

Biosingularity

• Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate olde ...
  Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism in mice through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating the connections between nerves and the muscles that they control. The research, published online by the journal Proceedings of the Nat ...
• Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
  Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
• HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
  Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...
• Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
  Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
• First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
  Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• New York's bedbugs vs. Africa's malaria crisis
  Our obsession with pesticide “risksâ€Â has very different consequences for America and Africa.
• Empowering the poor in the Yucatan jungle
  Local villagers struggle to survive in Becan, but a new program promises to bring prosperity by unleashing their creativity and energy.
• The global warming fleecing of the American taxpay ...
  The federal government has spent tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on research that has completely failed to affect temperatures or demonstrate an empirical link between human CO2 emissions and global warming.
• Target: Monckton
  Lord Monckton is under attack, a sure sign that he̢۪s winning on warming. Monckton fights back and refutes Prof. Abraham.
• Climate Depot’s award hat trick
  Marc Morano receives another award for his journalism covering the global warming movement.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Iran test fires new short-range missile
• The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Will Echo in the Arct ...
  The environmental tragedy triggered by the explosion which sank the BP-owned Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico has been unfolding for four months.
• BrahMos missile maker happy with Russian Glonass r ...
  BrahMos Aerospace Ltd., a Russian-Indian joint venture manufacturing supersonic cruise missiles, is successfully using Russian-built Glonass receivers for aiming and target acquisition, CEO Sivathanu Pillai said on Wednesday.
• Hyundai to produce special Russian car near St Pet ...
  South Korea's car maker Hyundai Motor plans to produce a new car designed specially for Russia, at its factory near St. Petersburg.
• Ukrainian PM hopes to review gas contract with Rus ...
  The Ukrainian government plans to suggest a review of the Russian-Ukrainian gas contract, which provides for a quarterly change in Ukraine's gas price, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Bengaluru Space Expo-2010 opens in India's Silicon ...
  India's international space exhibition Bengaluru Space Expo-2010 opens on Wednesday in Bangalore, a city in the southwest of the country, known as the Silicon Valley of India.
• Russian, German scientists discover rich fauna und ...
  A joint Russian-German expedition has discovered a rich fauna deep under the Sea of Japan, overturning previous scientific beliefs, a representative of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Sea Biology Institute has said.
• Russia to load nuclear fuel into Iran's Bushehr NP ...
  Russia is completing final preparations to load low-enriched uranium fuel into Iran's first civilian reactor at the Bushehr NPP later on Saturday.
• Russia's Mission Control readjusts ISS orbit
  Russia's Mission Control readjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by raising it by 2.2 kilometers (1.4 miles).
• Pre-launch preparation of Russian Rokot carrier ro ...
  The Plesetsk space center in northern Russia is about to complete pre-launch preparations of the Rokot carrier rocket, scheduled to blast off in early September, a defense ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Julian Assange got an agreement with the Swedish Pirate Party (my second favorite political party in the whole world) to provide hosting for WikiLeaks, thus giving it a measure of protection. Which it clearly needs. Assange was acc ...
• America's Bad Reputation Gets a Little Worse
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Monday U.S. District Court Judge Henry Kennedy ruled in what Carol Rosenberg described as a “heavily censored 28-page ruling” that Guantánamo detainee Adnan Abdul Latif was to be released. While he was locked up at least four ye ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Scott Horton on the depressingly cynical logic behind the Guantánamo show trials : “You can count on it that the convening authority will not get around to announcing the actual sentence until sometime after the midterm elections in ...
• Raise Their Pay and Make Them Stay
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Congressional sessions have been in the news twice this week, and in both cases Republicans were opposed. Tuesday’s special session and the prospective lame duck session were both the object of bitter complaints. Neither was surpri ...
• Summer Travel Season
  Surprisingly enough, August in Tennessee is warmish.

Organic Consumers.org

• US Dumping Unwanted HFCS on Mexico
  Reuters writer Mica Rosenberg reported yesterday that, "Soaring consumption of high fructose corn syrup in Mexico, aided by high sugar prices and paltry local cane harvests, could accelerate next year and boost sugar exports to the United States. Click here to read this article
• In Italy, a Battle Over Genetically Modified Corn
  VIVARO, Italy - Giorgio Fidenato declared war on the Italian government and environmental groups in April with a news conference and a YouTube video, which showed him poking six genetically modified corn seeds into Italian soil. Click here to read this article
• Geoengineering Won't Curb Sea-Level Rise
  Unless they involve extreme measures, geoengineering approaches to offset the effects of human-driven climate changes won't do much to combat rising sea levels, an international team of scientists reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. Click here to read this article
• Egg Industry Faces New Scrutiny After Outbreak
  As it reeled from the recall of half a billion eggs for possible salmonella infection, the American egg industry was already battling a movement to outlaw its methods as cruel and unsafe, and adapting to the Obama administration's drive to bolster health rules and inspections. Click here to read thi ...
• New York City Food Pantries Linking Those in Need ...
  The chartered bus pulls up to the 100-acre Hudson Valley farm, after a two-hour drive from Harlem, and stops alongside a row of crates filled with red and yellow onions. Outside the bus, sprawling green fields have come into view. "Oh my God. That's a barn," declares a young girl on the bus, her gaz ...

fotoFrontera

• Postales increíbles de paisajes mágicos I
  Como fiel admirador de la magia, la ficción y la fantasía, permítame usted compartirle a través del Banco de Imágenes, 10 hermosas postales de sitios verdaderamente increíbles. Deleite sus pupilas con estas hermosas imajenes y descubra la fusión de varios elementos que al paso del tiempo, han lograd ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes I
  El día de hoy 23 de agosto de 2010, daremos inicio a una nueva colección de fotogafías titulada ' Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes '. Para empezar bien, le ofrecemos 11 fotos que han sido previamente seleccionadas de entre miles con el objetivo de satisfacer sus propias espectativas. Hág ...
• Playas paradisiacas parte III (12 paraísos natural ...
  Son tiempos de paz. Para ello, qué mejor que reflexionar cómodamente mientras observa usted con detalles esta magnífica colección de playas hermosas . Son 12 belísimas imágenes de paisajes naturales donde las aguas cristalinas son las principales protagonistas. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen ...
• Los cañones más impresionantes del mundo parte III
  En el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, le estamos ofrediendo de manera paralela varias colecciones especiales. Tal es el caso de nuestra serie ' Los cañones más impresionantes del mundo ' dentro de la cual, le tenemos ya la tercera parte con 14 fotografías majestuosas .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la im ...
• La sorprendente belleza de la naturaleza (5 elemen ...
  Preocupado siempre por preservar nuestros espacios verdes, con suma frecuencia les he compartido cientos de imágenes sobre nuestra naturaleza. Con la firme intensión de enfatizar mi afán por disfrutar de los verdes prados, lagos, ríos, cascadas, flores y aire fresco, le tengo en esta ocasión 5 bellí ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Government officials sent ‘clarifying’ letter from ...
  Congressional testimony by two high-ranking government officials in April revealed some misconceptions about the mounting evidence over the use of antibiotics in industrial farm animal production and links to antibiotic resistance in humans. To clarify the case, Keeve Nachman, PhD, MHS, and directo ...
• Maryland public hearing on proposed oyster policy ...
  Citizens descended on the small town of Wye Mill, Maryland at Chesapeake College Thursday, August 5th to attend the final public comment period for Maryland’s sweeping new oyster policies. The overcast and muggy weather provided a sober backdrop for intense discussions on how Maryland will manage th ...
• NPR’s Morning Edition Focuses on Meatless Monday
  Some 14 million listeners tuned in this morning to hear National Public Radio’s most popular program, Morning Edition, give extensive coverage to the Meatless Monday campaign. The 8-1/2 minute segment, “Campaign Aims To Make Meatless Mondays Hip,” included an interview with Meatless Monday Founder, ...
• Biogas digesters for industrial agriculture in Chi ...
  While researching meat consumption and production in China last month, I visited two farms that have installed large-scale biogas digesters. These intriguing, bulbous contraptions capture animal waste, prevent pollution, make use of a renewable source of energy (methane), and transform the icky stuf ...
• Baltimore City Data Day Aims to Empower Baltimore ...
  As I intend to dedicate the better part of my career to research, I am often confronted with the fear that even the highest quality data can end up out in the ether of peer-reviewed publications that never make their intended splash, seen by a limited few and impacting even fewer. Last Friday I atte ...

Norwegianity

• Raindrops on roses, judenrats eat kittens
  When the dog bites When the bee stings When I’m feeling sad I simply remember my judenrat things And then I don’t feel so bad [rebroadcast all verses] More from Digby. - What you come here for: DeLay goes on trial today (running out the federal statute of limitations didn’t spare him from state char ...
• Fine thuning their campaign strategies
  The Daily Caller is Tucker Carlson’s attempt at doing Fox style news, but in a more partisan fashion and not just limited to truthy stuff, either. No clue what hidden agenda is being advanced by this confession, but Jonathan Strong says that half of all Republican bloggers are getting paid. âItâ ...
• Pilot-ettes, rape smears, whitey tapes & cousins m ...
  I’m glad I don’t drive at night much. Right now my headlights would be good for spotting raccoons hiding in trees but not much else. I’ve got 100 lbs. of rice, three cases of canned goods, 3 cases of mangoes, water and other restaurant supplies in the trunk and yes, the shocks are getting a [...]
• Norwegianity Way
  I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty. â Ernst Rohm Yes, August has always been like this: Imam Rauf’s book preaches love and acceptance, Hannity’s staff finds part of one page to twist inside out [did you know Fox's #2 shareholder is a Cordoba House [...]
• Police report
  Bad news. My restaurant client just called to let me know she’d been mugged last night. Some piece of shit hid by her car and when she closed the restaurant he attacked her from behind, hitting her in the head repeatedly and slamming her head against the car floor. She weighs less than 100 pounds [. ...

Public News Service

• Arizona Narrowly Misses Second Try at “Race ...
  Arizona Narrowly Misses Second Try at “Race to the Top” Funding Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s second attempt at getting school reform money in the federal “Race to the Top” grant competition has come up short. Nine states and Washington D.C. were announced as winners Tuesday. Comments from Panfilo (PON-fe ...
• Kids Who Get Hugged Grow Up to Be Well-Adjusted Ad ...
  Kids Who Get Hugged Grow Up to Be Well-Adjusted Adults Phoenix, AZ – A new report finds babies whose mothers provide an extra level of care and attention have a tendency to become well-adjusted children, and the psychological benefits extend well beyond childhood. Comments from counselor Rod Kochtit ...
• AZ Women Have New 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive Op ...
  AZ Women Have New 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive Option Phoenix, AZ – Arizona women have another emergency contraceptive option after federal health officials last week approved a new type of morning-after pill. The “ella” pill reduces the chances for pregnancy up to five days after sex. Comments fro ...
• New Lesson for AZ Classrooms: Teaching Social Skil ...
  New Lesson for AZ Classrooms: Teaching Social Skills Phoenix, AZ -A growing number of teachers and therapists in Arizona and elsewhere are finding more children lack basic social behavior skills. Some schools are incorporating social skills lessons into their education either through the expertise o ...
• AZ Ballot Measure Would Put Hunting, Fishing Right ...
  AZ Ballot Measure Would Put Hunting, Fishing Rights in Constitution Phoenix, AZ – Hunting and fishing would become a constitutional right under one of Arizona’s November ballot measures. But the amendment would also give state lawmakers exclusive authority to regulate wildlife. Critics say that’s su ...

My Care2 Picks

• Barak Obama conclusively outed as CIA operative
  Strong evidence has emerged that President Barack Obama is the product of the intelligence community Submitted by Michael Griffiths to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• LEED Building Standards Fail to Protect Human Heal ...
  Saving energy by making buildings more airtight has had the paradoxical effect of more effectively trapping the gases emitted by the unprecedented number of chemicals used in todays building materials and furnishings.( True for homes : heat exchangers) Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
• Blowback of the Abyss
  A different kind of book entirely. It is the intersection of war journalism and human rights.A tank unit that didnt end up doing much fighting with tanks Members of the unit were assigned to prison detail and in the process ended up doing terrible things Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �N ...
• Mounting Opposition to GMO Crops: World's People ...
  "...as governments and trade agreements circumvent the will of the people, some take matters into their own hands. The rise in GMO crop destruction is a clear indication that the worlds people reject chemical and genetic pollution of the food supply..." Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note- ...
• Genetically Manipulated Crops: The GMO Catastrophe ...
  GMO crops have been manipulated and patented for only two things to be resistant to patented highly toxic herbicide glyphosate chemicals and resist specific insects.Super-weeds have evolved so robust hand tools break trying to cut them down. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...

Angry Indian News

• Almost 200 Women Gang-Raped in the Congo-Democracy ...
  Democracy Now! | Headlines for August 24, 2010: Almost 200 Women Gang-Raped in the CongoIn news from Africa, aid groups are reporting Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped almost 200 women and five... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• WikiLeaks says it will release CIA paper soon
  WikiLeaks says it will release CIA paper soon - CNN.com: "(CNN) -- WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website that infuriated the Pentagon when it published thousands of classified military reports, said... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish and African re ...
  Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish and African relatives, DNA test suggests: [nydailynews] "Could Hitler's hatred for the Jewish people have been a case of self-loathing?The repulsive leader of Nazi... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• US death row inmate loses bid to prove his innocen ...
  US death row inmate loses bid to prove his innocence | Raw Story: "A court ruled Tuesday that Troy Davis, a death row inmate given a rare second chance by the US Supreme Court, had failed to prove... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• After Hurricane Katrina, NOLA cops told to shoot l ...
  After Hurricane Katrina, NOLA cops told to shoot looters | Raw Story: "In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Cured: A Cannabis Story
  The real reason the government doesn’t want us to have this medicine. There is no profit in it, and it actually works. Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids
• S.510: The incredible, exploitable…..EGG
  The PPJ Gazette The original version of S.510, introduced last year just after companion bill HR 2749 was passed in the House, has gone through quite a metamorphosis.  The original bill, a mere 50 pages or so, repeatedly relied on references and compliance to Codex Alimentarius and included several ...
• S.510 Section. 419 Enforcement: the corporate cont ...
  The PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley (c) copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved  _______________________________________________ Sect. 419. (d) Enforcement: The secretary may coordinate with the Secretary of AG, and as appropriate, shall CONTRACT and coordinate with the agency or department designated by the go ...
• S 510 Would Have Changed Nothing In the Recent Egg ...
  The PPJ Gazette Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED So between three different production CAFO’s involved over an 89 day period potentially 5,617,977 contaminated eggs were produced per day. _______________________________________________________ Stop the presses, hold the panic, ...
• How many Wisconsin DATCP goons does it take to inv ...
   The PPJ Gazette If you want a glimpse of what is ahead for you if S.510 passes, here it is.   These are Wisconsin predators, employed by DATCP to act under the color of law and against the people.  Earning from 65,000 thousand a year to as much as 105,000 per year, the goons in this [...]

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scott Bo ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Obama officials call for drones, military strikes ...
  ShareThis Obama officials call for drones, military strikes in Yemen �24 Aug 2010 For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan Langley - as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said ...
• Democrats pick Meek in Fla.
  ShareThis Democrats pick Meek in Fla. 25 Aug 2010 In Florida, voters delivered a mixed verdict on the outsider versus establishment question. In the Democratic Senate primary, Rep. Kendrick Meek easily defeated billionaire businessman and political novice [and GOP mole] Jeff Greene. His victory set ...
• Obama to appeal stemcell research ruling
  ShareThis Obama to appeal stemcell research ruling 25 Aug 2010� The US Justice Department said Tuesday it will appeal a judge's decision to block federal funding for stemcell research, risking an election year fight over hot button issues of science and religion. "I can confirm we plan to appeal," s ...
• McCain wins Ariz. GOP primary
  ShareThis McCain wins Ariz. GOP primary 24 Aug 2010 Sen. John McCain held off a Republican primary challenge by conservative firebrand J.D. Hayworth in Arizona Tuesday, returns indicated. With votes still being counted late Tuesday, CNN projected McCain, the Republican nominee for president in 2008, ...
• US fires on civilian Bagram protest
  ShareThis US fires on civilian Bagram protest --Western military alliance claimed that soldiers had only fired 'warning shots' 24 Aug 2010 US troops fired on thousands of Afghan civilians as they protested outside the massive US military base at Bagram on Monday. A provincial police official said th ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wisha ...
  It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the gist of the email that went out to...
• ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest ...
  As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Mark Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 from car exhaust fumes would kill him in an enclosed...
• Sins of Science Media Centre’s Omission
  PR hack Peter Griffin is at it again, this time complaining that a Waikato farmer should have been left to die by medical science, rather than allowing his family to administer the unproven Vitamin C therapy now claimed to have...
• Free TGIF Edition just out
  We're making TGIF available free for now...you can either click on the flash version below, or click the link below it to download the pdf: Open publication - Free publishing - More sport http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=975
• Brits to get hit with 4% income tax hike to pay fo ...
  From Benny Peiser's heads-up: Climate Taxes May Treble By 2020, Costing Taxpayers More Than £16 Billion A Year Gary Peev, Daily Mail, 17 August 2010 Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next...

Mondoweiss

• Yale conference on anti-Semitism targets Palestini ...
  This is disturbing. A Yale University center that purports to study anti-Semitism is holding a three-day conference on "the crisis" of global anti-Semitism (ending tomorrow) that is dedicated to the idea that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. The flotilla raid, anti-Semitic. Helen Thomas, ant ...
• Free Gaza Movement commemorates anniversary of fir ...
  While searching for news on the often-postponed voyage of the Lebanese all-women’s aid ship to Gaza, I stumbled upon a notice that yesterday, August 23rd, was the second anniversary of the landing of the first two boats to break the decades-long Israeli naval blockade of that beleaguered Palestinia ...
• Palestinian farm set afire, four well permits deni ...
  and other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Bedouin women protest razing of villages Demonstrators outside Interior Ministry say demolition of Bedouin homes in unrecognized villages shows State has 'no respect for human dignity'. http://www.ynetnew ...
• Internet Killed Israeli PR: An interview with Mino ...
  AH: Why did you make this video? MDT: Our primary intention was simply to provide some comic relief for a community (Palestine solidarity activists) that is still grieving for the nine innocent people who were murdered by the Israeli military aboard the Mavi Marmara. And if we could embarrass some o ...
• As a city that is compact together
  Whenever I come back to Jerusalem, I notice all of the things that have changed since my last visit and inevitably compare things to the way they were when I was growing up: old buildings torn down or renovated, new ones put up, changing demography, greater sophistication alongside persistent provin ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: New Generation Cancer Vaccine Will Cause Infe ...
  In the race to the top of the Vaccine manufacturing foodchain product side effects such as infertility are being overlooked in favor of scientific advancement. One competitor, U.S. firm Celldex Theraputics are vying for major positioning in the ranks with a radical new generation cancer vaccine now ...
• VRM: United States 2010-11 Flu Vaccine Affluria &# ...
  The United States flu vaccine for 2010-2011/AFLURIA® will be manufactured by CSL Laboratories in partnership with Merck Pharmaceuticals. Ingredients: 24.5 mcg of thimerosal mercury (safe level for a 2450 pound adult), Neomycin & Polymyxin (antibiotics associated with Kidney Failure, hazardous to ...
• VRM: Multi-Virus Vaccine Quinvaxem Proving Deadly
  Quinvaxem, a powerful 5 in 1 vaccine currently being distributed in India, containing live Diphtheria, Tetanus, Hib oligosaccharide (Haemophilus influenzae) & Hepatitis B virus plus an inactivated B. pertussis virus (heat treated or attenuated), has already caused the deaths of at least 5 children i ...
• VRM: The Rockefeller Foundation – Rulers of ...
  “Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, ‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve a many curious things to shew when you are there.” Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain, For who goes [...]
• VRM: Britain’s National Health Service &#821 ...
  Britain’s National Health Service is rapidly destroying the UK Health Care system; dismantling local programs, stripping hospitals of essential service staff, downsizing hospitals altogether, refusing to upgrade old equipment – all under the guise of tightening the belt, preserving what’s left of di ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. � If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner fo ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...
• Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies: Book Re ...
  I love the Dummies series of books.� They're quick reads packed with info that's presented in a clear and organized way. Plus I love the fact that most of them are available in Kindle versions for much less than the paper version. With the popularity of the Dummies books though, there are oft ...

Michael Yon

• Even While the World Watched: Part I
  Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand.  As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers.  Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it.  ...
• Perspective
  Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}
• Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
  12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.  People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
• Even as the World Watched III: Getting Hit to Get ...
  Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army.  I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to be hundreds of journalists crawling over the streets, and I see them with ...
• Even as the World Watched II: Tasting the Kool-Aid
  Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place.  She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons.  One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate street not far from Dusit Thani hotel, and she was alone with that little camera.  ...

The Killing Train

• The Rwandan Election
  Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
• The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
  An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...
• The Drug War in Afghanistan - the Dyncorp connecti ...
  Just reading some of the 800+ hits on the drug war in Afghanistan, and these are real - the US is fighting a drug war in Afghanistan. There are DEA agents running around arresting people, there are troops eradicating poppy in farmers fields, and they are finding and burning piles of opium, heroin, h ...
• Reading the incidents in Pakistan - some notes
  [Analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I pulled out the 170-or-so incidents that mention Pakistan and are actually in Pakistan. A lot of them involve coordination with the Pakistani military, getting it, failing to get it, etc. An observation post comes under indirect fire, they track the poi ...
• Afghan War Diary incidents in Pakistan
  [Analysis of Wikileaks's Afghan War Diary]. I thought it might be useful to show a map of the (approx. 170) incidents in the Afghan War Diary that mention Pakistan and also take place within Pakistan's borders. I will be reading the summaries to see what happened here, but take a look at it - there ...

treehugger

• Engineer Designs 182 Square Foot Boat-In-a-Basemen ...
  Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times Rebecca Teagarden of the Seattle Times visits Steve Sauer's 182 square foot basement apartment. The 6'-2" tall engineer designs airplane interiors for Boeing, but notes a different inspiration: "The greatest innovation anywhere for space is boats. Eve ...
• Peak Oil Alarm Raised By Secret Government Talks
  Image credit: AZrainman Could government finally be waking up to the threat of peak oil? When a government minister attended a peak oil conference as a "keynote listener" , I perhaps unkindly cited it as evidence that miracles do happen. But despite warnings of peak oil in 5 years from Richard ...
• Clayton's i-house 2.0: Reading Between The Lines T ...
  Preston at Jetson Green shows us Clayton Homes' i-house 2.0, a larger version of their green modern prefab introduced two years ago (and seen in TreeHugger here ). It is a handsome design, beautifully presented. But while Preston says that "I-house has been insanely popular", another source note ...
• Is Industrial Monoculture the Real Path to Sustain ...
  Image credit: Amanda Friedman/ NRDC Some have been wondering whether Obama is really on the side of sustainable farming or industrial agriculture . Others, however, are busy wondering whether industrial agriculture really is sustainable farming after all. In a provocative piece written for the ...
• Backyard Chicken Keepers Help Fight Avian Disease
  Image credit: Biosecurity for Birds/USDA From virtual chicken-rescue on Facebook to designer chicken coops for urban hipsters , the concept of backyard chicken keeping has really taken off. Now the USDA is calling on all backyard chicken keepers to join the fight against avian diseases—and they ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Southeast Asia rich-poor gap ‘widening’
  Discrepancy is 'wide' between rich and poor and could undermine efforts to create a single market and manufacturing base in Southeast Asia
• Int’l rights framework ‘meaningless’ for Burma
  Hong Kong-based legal group warns that continued human rights rhetoric without action is misleading and will keep Burma 'closed forever'
• Wa and Karen armies face final deadlines
  Wa army and KNU/KNLA Peace Council told to transform into Border Guard Force within days or face possible attack from Burmese troops
• Suu Kyi urges close election watch
  Opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi calls for Burmese to fulfil their duty of speaking out if the elections on 7 November are unfair
• Australia polls force refugees into spotlight
  42 Rohingya asylum-seekers continue their detention in Australia as elections in the country highlight the explosive issue of immigration

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Supporters of Climate Camp action are 'useful idio ...
  The campaign of criminal damage in Edinburgh is targeting companies engaged in decent, lawful and worthwhile activities, says Alan Cochrane.
• RBS head office damaged by golf balls in climate p ...
  Windows at the Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters in Edinburgh have been smashed by golf balls during an ongoing climate change protest, it is claimed.
• Climate change activist glued herself to RBS desk
  A climate change activist was arrested on Friday after gluing herself to a desk at the Royal Bank of Scotland's headquarters.
• UN warn of further loss of life in Pakistan
  As the UN calls for $460 million of aid, Pakistan's UN Ambassador warns that many have not grasped the scale of the disaster.
• Climate change round the world
  The simultaneous catastrophes of flooding in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia and landslides in China are evidence that global warming predictions are correct, according to climate change experts.

National Geographic | Environment

• Tapping into the Electric Power of Heat
  Converting waste heat into electricity cuts power costs around the world. A new U.S. firm seeks to give the idea a high-tech boost. Electricity - Energy - Technology - United States - Business
• "Snot Otter" Sperm to Save Giant Salamander?
  To save North America's biggest salamander, conservationists are freezing its sperm, which luckily comes "pouring out of the animal." Giant salamander - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Chordata - Animalia
• Ocean Garbage Patch Not Growing—Where's "Missing" ...
  The "soup" of plastic trash in the North Atlantic hasn't gotten thicker in two decades, says a new study that's puzzling ocean scientists. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Atlantic Ocean - Oceanography - North Atlantic - Earth Sciences
• Photos: Honeycomb Clouds "Communicate," Rain in Un ...
  NoneLike blinking fireflies, some marine clouds "communicate" with each other, forming, raining, and re-forming in unison, a new study says. Rain - Cloud - Business - Arts - Works
• Giant Underwater Plume Confirmed—Gulf Oil Not Degr ...
  A giant plume from BP's Gulf of Mexico spill has been confirmed deep in the ocean—and there are signs it may stick around, a new study says. Gulf of Mexico - BP - Oil spill - Environment - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Jurist - Legal Research

• Turkish prosecutors to investigate allegations of ...
  [JURIST] Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday announced plans to investigate claims by Eskisehir Police Chief Hanefi Avci that evidence of several alleged coups plots, particularly Ergenekon [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], was fabricated. Avci alleged in a book he recently published, Devotee Resi ...
• California lawmakers urge federal government to re ...
  [JURIST] The California Senate voted 22-12 [roll call vote] Monday in favor of a joint resolution [AJR 19 text; materials] to urge the federal government to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text; JURIST news archive]. Among other concerns, the resolution states that, under the law, same-se ...
• State Department releases UN human rights review
  [JURIST] The US State Department (DOS) [official website] on Monday released a report [text, PDF; press release] on human rights in the US, which was presented to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCHR) [official website] last week. The report was submitted in order to comply with the rule ...
• Switzerland activists move to reinstate death pena ...
  [JURIST] Capital punishment advocates in Switzerland can begin collecting signatures in support of a referendum [text, in German] to reinstate the death penalty [JURIST news archive] for those convicted of murder, the Federal Chancellery [official website, in German] announced Tuesday. Campaigners f ...
• Federal judge blocks federal funding for embryonic ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] issued a preliminary injunction [opinion text] Monday blocking federal funding for embryonic stem cell [JURIST news archive] research. Last year, President Barack Obama signed an executive order [JURIST report ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• That's A Wrap, Folks
  Says John Dickerson: " The national lesson from the primaries today is clear: a;sdlfk jp9r;tyh##" Hewing to my "good analysis is victory agnostic" nostrum, here's what I'm taking away from a night of surprises and triumphs. One: J.D. Hayworth was a wannabe insurgent who was toppled by his own arro ...
• Would Obama Fare Better With a Republican House?
  With prognosticators hardening their positions about Republicans taking control of the House, the latest analytical tack you'll see pundits take is to say that the White House is probably better off in the long term with Republicans owning part of the government in the short term. Would losing the ...
• Morning Joe for President: The Fantasy Continues
  Joe Scarborough, former congressman from Florida and co-host of MSNBC's agenda-setting wake-up show Morning Joe, has protested, kindly and loudly (he is kind and loud), when speculation arises about his presidential ambitions. He points out that MSNBC is not the platform a conservative would use to ...
• What the White House Really Thinks About Bombing I ...
  This post is part of our forum on Jeffrey Goldberg's September cover story detailing the prospects and implications of an Israeli strike against Iran. Follow the debate here . According to Elliott Abrams : If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon during his tenure, Obama would -- in his own eyes -- see ...
• Why Gary Johnson Isn't Taken Seriously
  Conor Friedersdorf wonders why no one is taking former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson's proto-presidential campaign seriously.� Were our criteria for viable presidential candidates more sane, however, he'd be a strong contender, due to his experience, desire to reform obviously broken policies, a ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Bibi to Name New Shin Bet Director
  Bibi Netanyahu has decided who his new Shin Bet director will be.  The name is a closely guarded secret and has not yet been reported in Israel or anywhere.  He is Yitzhak Ilan, the deputy under the current director Yuval Diskin.  He will assume his new role in May 2011, when Diskin steps down.  ...
• Houston Jewish Federation and Hagee End Funding fo ...
  I would like to reach out my arms to dance a transcontinental hora with Didi Remez, the Calcalist, Yossi Gurvitz, and all those others who helped expose John Hagee’s $120,000 gift to Im Tirzu.  It seems that both the Houston federation and Hagee have gotten the message that Im Tirzu is not an educa ...
• Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
  MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
• Jewish Agency PR Flack Defends Hagee Gift to Im Ti ...
  A few days ago the Israeli financial blog Calcalist published an expose (English translation) on a $3-million gift by John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, which was passed through the Jewish Agency via the Houston Jewish federation where it originated.  I’ve reported in the past on the benefi ...
• Why U.S.-Brokered Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks ...
  The ink isn’t even dry on the press release announcing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning under U.S. auspices on September 2nd, before just about everyone except Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is sighing with abject resignation and conviction that they will be a failure.  Why?  First, bec ...

Ode Magazine

• Embracing imperfection
  By: VictoriaKlein Sometimes, things need to be just so. Most of the time though, good (not great) is good enough. This doesn’t mean you are settling for second best or short-changing yourself – you’re being realistic, because people are imperfect. The As ...
• Dance of life
  The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, as a “teach-in day” to raise awareness about environmental problems. Today, Earth Day mobilizes hundreds of millions of people around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to a cleaner planet. Last year, these schoolchildren ...
• Video: Farm tours around the world
  A collection of videos from Polyface Farm and other farms mentioned in the "Beyond Organic" article. Polyface Farm Mac Arthur Foundation Fellow: Will Allen Ridge to Reef Program at VI Sustainable Farm Issue: April/May 2010 Related Reading ...
• Forget finicky food
  Instead of scanning labels, give the kids some authentic home cooking. It’s really not fair to label kids as finicky eaters if lactose makes them break out or preservatives make them itch. We should, instead, focus on finicky food. All things considered, it’s a minor mira ...
• Is peace possible?
  By: PeaceCorso According to this article by J. Kirk Boyd, it is. I found it on Alternet. I know it’s long, but the ideas are worth it. My editor tells me that Ode used the same excerpt in an article in March 2010 . If you didn’t see it, read it here. The i ...

OpEd News

• Sharon Abreu Spins Her Music into Activism
  There is nothing more gratifying than using my voice to raise awareness about serious issues in a way that incorporates both heart and mind, and which inspires people to get active and make a difference. Singing for and with people enriches my life so much because I get to connect with so many peopl ...
• Beware the Food Safety Modernization Bill in the S ...
  S 510,as written,might do real harm to the small farmers who are not part of this massive tainted food problem! BEWARE!You know Corporations never waste a good crisis to increase their own power and profit!S510 favors foreign farms and producers over domestic.It creates incentives for retailers to i ...
• Victims Of $3.6 Billion Petters Ponzi Fraud Protes ...
  Victims of the $3.6 billion financial fraud by Minnesota businessman Tom Petters are justifiably angry about the federal victim-restitution process that began after his 2008 arrest. The feds used hardball tactics to install well-connected cronies in key positions, which should trouble anyone who ...
• John Boehner's Worst Nightmare
  If Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner thinks the Obama Administration's and Democrats' agenda for this nation is infuriating, wait until he encounters the following proposed agendas.CMN News, an independent radio show that can be heard live on "Talk Shoe" every Saturday at 3 pm ET, recent ...
• Housing Holocaust: Existing Home Sales Plunge, Ma ...
  It's been four years since problems with subprime mortgages triggered the deepest slump since the Great Depression. Today's bleak housing numbers are not the result of a "cyclical downturn", but of a crime perpetrated on the American people. There must accountability. Someone's gotta pay!

Switchboard

• A New Vision for Transportation In Los Angeles--Im ...
  On Monday, the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles in partnership with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles submitted a very important application for federal funding under the Department of Transportation’s TIGER II program for the Watts Green Corrido ...
• Lessons for the oil and gas industry from hospital ...
  I recently visited southwestern Pennsylvania to meet families living with natural gas drilling and learn about their experiences. I saw brown drinking water at one home and met a farmer who reports that 70 of his cows died after drinking some fluid that leaked from a loose valve on a w ...
• The Shark Ate My Homework: NRDC Submarine Attacked ...
  I couldn’t help but chuckle a bit when I read Ali’s recent post about “Waldo,” the autonomous submarine launched by NRDC, Oceana, and the Mote Marine Laboratory this past July to explore the waters off the Florida Keys for plumes of underwater oil. Waldo’s mission, it seemed, was cut ...
• Gulf Coast Disaster - Tuesday, August 24
  Day 127 Highlights in this issue: - Did fighting the fire contribute to the sinking of the oil rig? - Justice Department to combat financial fraud in oil spill cases - Changing the command structure of oil rigs - No easy job to remove blowout preventer - Where’s the oil? Eaten by mic ...
• Why Yellowstone's grizzlies are hungry; No climate ...
  An Associated Press article carried by the Washington Post quoted Louisa Willcox on the troubling implications that the widespread loss of whitebark pine trees has for Yellowstone’s Grizzly bear population… Franz Matzner explained that the Senate’s failure to pass comprehensive climate ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• “Islamic Niketown?”
  Goldberg’s latest is almost too incoherent to even be hateful. Almost. Related posts:Blogging While Female Related posts: Blogging While Female
• Tex Ed
  In the wake of Dr. Ryan’s death-by-texting, Joel Johnson of Wired asks why we haven’t invented a safer way to text while driving? Well here’s one way that I’m certainly going to make use of next year when my daughter gets her permit: Related posts:QOTD An Inquiry Against the Mileage Tax Relate ...
• As a “republican,” Sarah Palin must ha ...
  Ilya Somin’s response to my London post is a nifty little walk-back, but he does have a point: âProgressiveâ is a general term routinely applied to all those early 20th century writers and political activists who supported large-scale increases in government control of the economy. That’s not i ...
• Everything in “The Chrysanthemum and the Swo ...
  I can’t counter Lemieux’s endorsement of Matt Zoller Seitz’s recap of “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword,” but I would like to register my annoyance with Seitz for setting the bar so high. Particularly annoying is the fact that Seitz discussed at length the most salient visual element of this episode ...
• The War On (Poor) Women Who Want Access To (Safe) ...
  Virginia edition. However, abortion policy expert Ross Douthat has informed us that the United States permits absolutely no restrictions on abortion, so obviously this is all a bad dream of some kind. Related posts:Win-Win How To Ban Abortion For Poor Women It’s Not That They’re Lazy About ...

Desert Research Institute

• Innovative Equipment Manufacturer Features Work wi ...
  The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.
• Dr. Henry Sun: Looking for Life on Mars
  The Viking landers found strange evidence that suggested the presence of life on Mars (later disproven). A new study about life's preference for left- or right-handedness could help scientists design better versions of the Viking life tests.
• DRI Assists with West Point Cadet Training
  Dr. Eric McDonald his group of DRI scientists have partnered with West Point to develop a curriculum to teach cadets how to take soil samples and measurements with different geotechnical equipment, as well as manage large data sets.
• DRI Researcher Named to National Committee
  Duane Moser, Ph.D., has been elected to the Executive Committee for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory Research Association (DuRA).
• Scientists Use Tahoe Work to Protect Guatemalan La ...
  A team of scientists including DRI's Dr. Alan Heyvaert have been working at Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to find solutions to algae blooms that have assailed the ecosystem and the locals' drinking water.

Earth Techling

• Peugeot Unveils Fully Hybrid Diesel Car
• Viewsonic Announces All LED Monitors
• Smart Building Tech Aids Net Zero School
• Humanair Makes Home A Clean Air Zone
• Concept Health Monitor Powered By Body

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Anti-abortion group loses challenge to judicial ca ...
  A right-to-life group has lost a second round in its challenge to an Indiana ethics rule that prohibits judges from identifying their views on abortion.
• Pro bono consortium of 17 firms led to settlement ...
  A novel pro bono structure helped 100-plus plaintiffs who sued engineering company URS Corp. over the August 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse link up with a $52.4 million settlement last weekend. The settlement covered the gap between special masters' calculations of each victim's total damages and ...
• Hospitals' fraud suits against management firm to ...
  Federal judges have ruled that lawsuits brought by financially struggling hospitals in Mississippi and Georgia may proceed against their former management company.
• Law school hunger striker revealed: He is a she
  "Ethan Haines" caught the attention of the legal blogosphere in early August by announcing that he would go on a hunger strike to push law schools to release more accurate employment statistics. It turns out that "Haines" is actually Zenovia Evans, a 28-year-old woman living in Denver — and that the ...
• Massachusetts same-sex ruling on hold
  A Massachusetts federal court decision striking down as unconstitutional a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act will go on hold pending any appeal by the government.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Marcellus Shale Drillers in Pennsylvania Amass 143 ...
  952 Identified as Most Likely to Harm the Environment The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association has reviewed environmental violations accrued by Marcellus Shale drillers working in Pennsylvania between January 2008 and June 25, 2010.  The records were obtained via a Right to Know Request made to the P ...
• Up In the Air
  I made an announcement shortly after Memorial Day weekend, that I would be putting my home in DISH on the market.  This decision was made by my family after several instances of both of my children having nosebleeds during the night.  These nosebleeds correlated with strong odors and spikes in the c ...
• DEP’s Unauthorized Water Withdrawal Program
  July 26, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Cathy Pedler – (814) 454-7523 Bill Belitskus – (814) 778-5173 Ryan Talbott – (503) 887-7845 Department of Environmental Protection Unlawfully Permitting Water Withdrawals For Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling in Western Pennsylvania Only riparian owners can ...
• DEP has proposed tougher standards for Oil & Gas d ...
  The Public Comment Meetings are finished and there are only about ten days to get in your comments by e-mail. These regulations call for more stringent standards for O&G drilling operations. These regulations are vital.  They upgrade requirements for testing, well casing, welding, cementing and othe ...
• Gas Stock 2010!
  http://www.gasstockconcert.com/ This is an environmental concert and rally. Music and like minded folks who are concerned about the gas drilling in PA. Check it out.

News Blaze

• Troubled Camp for Displaced in Darfur Focus of Tal ...
  Mr. Yonis emphasized the collaboration between the Sudanese Government and UNAMID in ensuring the safety and security of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kalma, noting the mission's commitment to upholding calm and order in the South
• Senegalese General Appointed Adviser to UN Peaceke ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye as military adviser for United Nations peacekeeping operations.
• Urgent Solutions Needed for Bosnia's Displaced Say ...
  The acclaimed actress and activist, called for urgent measures to improve the lives of the displaced, many of whom are elderly or ill and are barely able to look after themselves.
• Donations Needed For UN To Help Central African Re ...
  The UN agency is facing a $15 million shortfall over the next eight months to provide food assistance to some 600,000 people mainly in the conflict-affected northern part of the country.
• Briefing on the Global Shale Gas Initiative Confer ...
  David L. Goldwyn, Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Briefs on the Global Shale Gas Initiative Conference

environment 360

• Most Oil Spills in Niger Delta Not Caused By Shell ...
  A three-year investigation by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) will conclude that 90 percent of the massive amount of oil spilled in the Niger Delta in recent decades has come not from Shell’s operations but from local people sabotaging company pipelines and stealing oil, according to ...
• Wind Power Generated More than 10 Percent of Energ ...
  Four U.S. states generated more than 10 percent of their in-state power production from wind energy in 2009 , according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Click to enlarge USDOE Locations of wind power in the U.S. Laboratory. New wind power plants wer ...
• Wild Fires Send 3,000-Kilometer Plume of Smoke Acr ...
  Click to enlarge NASA IMAGE: Fires across western Russia This NASA satellite image shows a 3,000-kilometer plume of thick smoke traveling across central and western Russia as hundreds of wild fires burn in forests and peat bogs across the region. Russian officials said on Thursday there were at le ...
• Tiny Fish Adapts to Cooler Water Within Three Year ...
  Canadian researchers say their research shows tiny stickleback fish were able to develop tolerance for water significantly cooler than their ancestors within three years, a rapid adaptation that suggests evolution may help species survive the effects of climate change. By transplanting a species of ...
• A Looming Oxygen Crisis and Its Impact on World’s ...
  As warming intensifies, scientists warn, the oxygen content of oceans across the planet could be more and more diminished, with serious consequences for the future of fish and other sea life. BY CARL ZIMMER

Red Ice Creations

• Churchill Ordered UFO Cover-Up, Archives Show
  With a civilian population haunted by the Blitz and the Second World War still in the balance, it was one development Winston Churchill could have done without - An incursion into British airspace by an arrow-shaped metallic object feared to contain an invasion force of little green men.
• Should Videotaping the Police Really Be a Crime?
  Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle. Then Graber put the video — which could put the officer in a bad light — up on YouTube.
• Unilever Stalks its Customers with GPS Trackers Se ...
  The household cleaning product giant Unilever has secretly placed GPS tracker transmitters in laundry detergent boxes to track consumers to their homes. With an array of electronic sensors, team of Unilever agents can now pinpoint the exact location of the GPS trackers and walk right up to your fron ...
• Three Bright Planets Visible in Night Sky Triangle
  A spectacular gathering of three of the brightest planets will be the chief celestial attraction in the evening sky during the next few days. Anyone with a clear and unobstructed view of the west-northwest horizon will be able to Venus, Mars and Saturn in a single glance. These three planets are des ...
• Solar tsunami to trigger northern lights across Ca ...
  Stargazing doesn’t get much better than this. The northern lights are expected to make an appearance in the night sky across Canada and the northern United States this week, thanks to a spectacular eruption on the surface of the Sun. Early on Sunday, the sun’s surface exploded in a phenomenon called ...

Russia Today

• Moscow traffic third-worst in the world – report
  Moscow has been ranked third on the list of the world cities with the highest level of traffic jams.
• Premier League Goals Galore: week 18
  In the Russian Premier League, Week 18 threw up plenty of strikes well worth a second look. RT chose the pick of them and now offers Goals Galore to all football fans.
• Putin shoots whale with crossbow for sake of scien ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has taken part in a wildlife experiment, helping biologists get skin samples from an endangered gray whale.
• Why World Cup should be given to Russia
  As the race for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups is gaining momentum, RT gives its arguments in favor of the Russian bid.
• WikiLeaks announces release of CIA paper
  The whistle-blowing website that angered the Pentagon by publishing 90,000 secret US files is now set to reveal a CIA paper.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

• Danish Rockets: Or Those Incredible Young Men in T ...
  Move over Elon Musk and Burt Rutan. Here are a couple of adventurous Danish inventors who are willing to put their money, and their lives, where the rubber meets the road so to speak. Or to put it more exactly; The Amazing Flying Danes: It might not look much. In fact, it looks practically suicidal. ...
• Star Child Update
  The Star Child, the skull of a supposed “alien” child, does seem to have anomalous DNA on the father’s side of the family. Lloyd Pye explains: ] Proof of genetic engineering 900 years ago? The more time goes on and empirical evidence such as DNA from the Star Child, and I’m sure others will crop [.. ...
• Hawking Makes Waves At SETIcon
  It seems that Dr. Hawking’s statements about nomadic ETIs being voracious hunters has created quite a stir in the mainstream science community. Especially the crowd Uncle Seth Shostak is in charge of at the recent SETIcon in California: Even if humanity could reach out to an intelligent alien civili ...
• On the Cusp of Wormhole Technology?
  Wormhole technology, or any kind of faster-than-light space travel is considered tin-foil hat fantasy with current technology. But Gary S. Bekkum of STARstream research interviewed a young Iranian physicist in May of this year who just might’ve discovered a way using present day tech of producing wo ...
• The Politics of Fear
  The 21st Century is one of William Gibson’s dystopic tales. Or maybe Philip K. Dick, I can’t tell. Anyway, one can’t deny the fear and anxiety that permeates the air like a thick cloud of smog. Couple that with technology accelerating toward a Technological Singularity that seems to want to ensla ...

Tippers News

• The Ethics of Healthy Bacon
  Monsanto has filed patents that cover the feeding of animals soybeans, which have been genetically modified by the company to contain stearidonic acid (SDA), a plant-derived omega-3 fatty acid. Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Take a stand against Animal Fighting in Indiana ! ...
  We the undersigned are writing to ask for your immediate and dedicated efforts to support and encourage the vigorous prosecution of individuals arrested for animal fighting violations. As a citizen of Indianapolis, I want our city and state to be known Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
• Push for Harsher Sentence Towards Animal Abuse/Mur ...
  Who is "Pommy"? Its the most recent victim of animal abuse in Singapore. Its the unidentified Pomeranian who was "thrown and bashed onto the floor over and over again... at least 10 times". Its the dog who passed away with a collar and leash on but Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Stop Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) in Prince Ge ...
  Breed specific legislation discriminates against dogs based solely on how they look, not based on their behavior. It is costly, ineffective and inhumane. Thousands of dogs have lost their lives in Prince George's County since CB-106-1996's enactment Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Sign the Pledge of Nonviolence ! TAKE ACTION !
  Violent thoughts, actions, and interactions are becoming more prevalent everyday. Nonviolence is the only way to make positive lasting changes in our selves, homes, communities, and nations. So it all starts with our own personal pledge to attempt to be Submitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture �|� ...

The Freeman

• Ancient Trading Post Found in Egypt
  “Egypt’s antiquities authority announced on Wednesday the discovery of an ancient trading settlement in one of its desert oases dating back more than 3,500 years, a millennium older than previous discoveries in the area.” (Associated Press) The great civilizer. FEE Timely Classic “Trade and Diversit ...
• Shrinking the Pie Is No Piece of Cake
  “The national debt is rising to levels that have never been seen in the United States during peacetime. Everyone agrees that it must come down. The question is how fast. Too fast could weaken the already weak economy. Too slow could do the same thing.” (Miami Herald) Itâs got to be done. FEE Timel ...
• Is it Taxation, Censorship, or Both?
  In this day of governments grasping for revenues, it is not surprising to see Philadelphia try to milk the bloggers.
• Homebuyer Tax Credit Branded a Scam
  “The Realtors backed it⦠the home builders backed it⦠the mortgage bankers backed it⦠virtually anyone with an [sic] financial interest in residential real estate transactions backed the Homebuyer Tax Credit (and itâs expanded extension) and now that the program is finally complete and a who ...
• “Enhanced Patdown” at Airports Riles ACLU
  “The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is questioning the propriety of stepped-up security checkpoint procedures at airports in Boston and Las Vegas. The Boston Herald reports that Transportation Security Administration screeners at Logan International Airport are testing what one offi ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• New York Times seeks multimedia journalism interns
  Poking around in The New York Times’s job listings, I found this description of three distinct internships “in the Web Newsroom of The New York Times”: Front-end Interactive Designer: full skill-set of client-side technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Prototype. Experience with Ruby on ...
• A fresh look at reporting skills
  In June I posted a ranked list of skills needed by todayâs journalists . In reviewing it today, I wondered whether it would be different if instead of saying journalist we said reporter . Say you want to hire a reporter — for a Web-only organization, a magazine, a newspaper, a TV or documentary o ...
• Getting started with WordPress
  Here’s a new, stripped-down, easy-to-follow introduction to WordPress — the free blogging platform that also works as a versatile content management system: WordPress Basics This short tutorial is based on the second installment in my Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency , but I have shorten ...
• Online video still growing, gaining viewers
  Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...
• Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
  @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...

Facing South

• Roadmap to recovery: Groups offer plan to restore ...
  A coalition of more than 100 organizations from across the U.S. and Gulf Coast released a report yesterday that offers a plan for the long-term recovery of the region affected by the BP oil spill disaster. "One Gulf, resilient Gulf: A plan for coastal community recovery" calls on the federal gover ...
• After Katrina, New Orleans cops were told they cou ...
  This story was reported by Sabrina Shankman and Tom Jennings of Frontline , Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi of The New Orleans Times-Picayune and A.C. Thompson of ProPublica . In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Nuclear scam in the Sunshine Stat ...
  Amount Florida utilities want to bill their customers in advance for planned new nuclear reactors: $200 million Amount the state's Public Service Commission has already authorized the companies to bill their customers in advance: $269 million Number of new reactors proposed for the state ...
• As Gulf spill claims czar takes over, a checklist ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Yesterday, independent paymaster Kenneth Feinberg took the reins from BP in managing damage claims from the Gulf oil spill. He has promised to make sweeping improvements in BP's system, which has been criticized by applicants as slow, bureaucratic and lacking in tra ...
• VOICES: Fighting forced labor in Tennessee
  By Jacob Horwitz, Labor Notes Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato farms, he would earn as little as $12 a day. In April, Jimenez ( in photo ) took on $1,000 of debt -- a crushing amount in rural Mexico -- for the p ...

Survival International

• David v. Goliath: Indian tribe in ‘stunning’ victo ...
  The Dongria Kondh and their supporters have won a momentous victory. © Toby Nicholas/Survival A tribe in India has won a stunning victory over one of the worldâs biggest mining companies. In an extraordinary move, Indiaâs Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has blocked Vedanta Resourcesâ ...
• African Commission rules outspoken academic wrongl ...
  Bushmen children © Survival The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has declared that outspoken academic, Professor Kenneth Good, was wrongly deported from Botswana after criticizing the lack of democracy in the country. Professor Good worked as professor of political studies at th ...
• Penan tribe demand a say in dam project
  Work is in full flow on dams in the Penan's area. © Survival Penan tribespeople in Borneo have demanded a say in a hydroelectric dam being built on their land. Construction of the Murum dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is well underway, and will flood the land of at least six Penan villag ...
• Amazon Indians fight controversial mega dam
  Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon © Verena Glass Hundreds of Indians from throughout the Brazilian Amazon participated in a landmark protest to highlight the threat to their survival posed by large infrastructure projects, in particular the hugely controversial Belo Mo ...
• Brazilian Indians celebrate creation of their own ...
  Yanomami woman. Yanomami Indians and Indians of many other tribes are celebrating the creation of their own health service © Fiona Watson/Survival Tribal peoples all over Brazil are celebrating the creation of a new branch of the Ministry of Health which will be responsible for providing health ...

Greg Palast

• Five Years and Still DrowningThe New Orleans CNN W ...
  It's been five years already. In New Orleans, more than half the original residents have not, cannot, return. "They don't want no poor niggers back in - that's the bottom line." And that's Malik Rahim, Director of Common Ground, who led the survivors who rebuilt their homes in the teeth of official ...
• Five Years and Still DrowningThe New Orleans CNN w ...
  Get Moviefone's top choice of Katrina documentaries Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans "Greg Palast brings you exclusive footage on the hidden political agendas and the suppressed eyewitness reports involved in the disaster." Get the DOWNLOAD Free of Char ...
• Separation of Church and Hate:The Kate Mosque Solu ...
  by Greg Palast Since everyone seems to have an opinion about the mosque near Ground Zero (and President Obama has two), I like to ask you all a couple of questions: Given that white Christian supremacist Tim McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building, shouldn't we ban white churches from th ...
• Behind Bush's Wyly Billionaire Burglars... Hint: B ...
  by Greg Palast Card illustrations by Bob GrossmanSam Wyly is one of the planet's "Ten Greenest Billionaires," according to Forbes. And, the magazine should have added, the one that deserves the most prison time. Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged billionaire Sam and his bil ...
• Palast on GRITtv: Fighting Toxic Oil Companies
  Last week, Mike Papantonio told us on GRITtv that there was no fund from BP to pay for the oil disaster, and raised some questions about Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the damages to Gulf residents. Today investigative journalist Greg Palast answers some of those questions--and raises a f ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• BP oil spill: Was Tony Hayward right after all?
  The disgraced BP boss enraged America when he played down the effects of the Gulf of Mexico spill. But was he to the truth? asks Richard Alleyne.
• New oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after tug boat ...
  A new oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has created a mile-long slick after a tug boat struck an abandoned well off the Louisiana coast.
• Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Cheap oil and deepwater ...
  Tony Hayward had to go, but we'll all have to pay if we want risk-free fuel, argues Tracy Corrigan.
• China struggles to clean up worst-ever oil spill
  Hundreds of fishing boats armed with vats of "oil-eating" bacteria were busy trying to contain China's worst-ever oil spill.
• BP oil spill: company accused of 'buying academic ...
  Researchers reportedly asked to sign "restrictive" contracts for work designed to protect BP from Gulf of Mexico oil spill lawsuits.

Ian Welsh

• No, the Fed doesn’t need to “press&#82 ...
  This is exactly wrong mindset: Time and again, the credit card industry has demonstrated its disdain for its customers. The Fed needs to press these companies to live up to the law. No, they need to FORCE them.  And if they don’t, it needs to PUNISH them enough that it’s not worth their while. Whic ...
• The Somali TFG is in more trouble than usual
  The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia is in more trouble than it normally is Its baseline state is that it is a hollow joke with international recognition.  In Mogadishu, the capital, the TFG controls the Presidential palace, a couple of blocks around that building, and a few road ...
• The Somali TFG is in more trouble than usual
  The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia is in more trouble than it normally is Its baseline state is that it is a hollow joke with international recognition.  In Mogadishu, the capital, the TFG controls the Presidential palace, a couple of blocks around that building, and a few road ...
• The “Mosque” controversy and bigotry
  Ok, enough.  As Glenn Greenwald points out, this ginned up controversy is now about bigotry.  Or, to put it another way, it’s about who the acceptable out-group to hate is in America. Apparently it’s Muslims. This is turning into a propaganda coup for Islamic fundamentalists, who are able to point ...
• State of the Economy
  Let’s have a chat about the economy, starting with a couple articles. The first is an article from the NY Times noting that small investors have been moving out of the market in droves: 33.12 billion out of mutual funds this year, so far.  This is entirely rational, not only is the market currently ...

Age of Autism

• Lessons From the Egg Recall: Cheap Food Makes You ...
  Managing Editor's Note: This is an important post from our colleague and friend David Kirby, author of Animal Factory. Please comment at Huffington Post. Americans currently "enjoy" the cheapest animal protein in history. Such a monumental achievement could only have...
• Tragedy In East Texas as 21 Year Old with Autism K ...
  We post this with a heavy heart. Our children are aging, racing to adulthood. We need to have a fully honest discussion about the reality of autism for families, the urgent need for prevention, and medical treatment beyond psychiatric drugs...
• Massachusetts Passes Autism Insurance Legislation
  By Allison Chapman Treating autism should not have to depend on how large a pocketbook you have or how deep your pockets run. Massachusetts State Representative Barbara L’Italien agrees with such sentiments, as she decided to introduce legislation to level...
• Katie Wright on the July IACC: Autism, Abortion, A ...
  By Katie Wright July’s IACC’s meeting actually had some wonderful high points. No kidding. Yes there were insensitive, clueless and unintentionally funny comments- it is the same cast of characters after all. However, IACC had perhaps its best ever scientific...
• Do Reliable Thimerosal Estimates Exist?
  By Jake Crosby That is, of course, the key question that must be answered before one is to draw any final conclusions about the current autism rates in this country being associated – or not associated – with exposure to...

Global BDS Movement

• Norwegian government pension fund excludes more Is ...
  Norwegian government pension fund excludes more Israeli companies read more
• Besieging Israel's siege
  In just a few years the Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has become truly global writes Omar Barghouti for The Guardian 12 August 2010. � read more
• Imaging Apartheid - Poster Project for Palestine
  call for submissions: Montreal July 2010 http://imagingapartheid.org/downloads/imagingapartheid_call.pdf As the global movement in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation continues to grow, we are calling on graphic designers and artists to submit their work to IMAGING APARTHEID: ...
• 6,000 Irish shoppers demand supermarket stops stoc ...
  Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international l ...
• Palestinian civil society salutes Olympia Food Co- ...
  Occupied Palestine, 26 July 2010 – Palestinian farmers unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees struggling against Israel’s colonial Wall and settlements warmly salute the historic decision taken on July 15th [1] by the Olympia Food Co-op to remove all Israeli products from its shel ...

Farm Wars

• Cured: A Cannabis Story
  The real reason the government doesn’t want us to have this medicine. There is no profit in it, and it actually works. Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids
• S.510: The incredible, exploitable…..EGG
  The PPJ Gazette The original version of S.510, introduced last year just after companion bill HR 2749 was passed in the House, has gone through quite a metamorphosis.  The original bill, a mere 50 pages or so, repeatedly relied on references and compliance to Codex Alimentarius and included several ...
• S.510 Section. 419 Enforcement: the corporate cont ...
  The PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley (c) copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved  _______________________________________________ Sect. 419. (d) Enforcement: The secretary may coordinate with the Secretary of AG, and as appropriate, shall CONTRACT and coordinate with the agency or department designated by the go ...
• S 510 Would Have Changed Nothing In the Recent Egg ...
  The PPJ Gazette Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED So between three different production CAFO’s involved over an 89 day period potentially 5,617,977 contaminated eggs were produced per day. _______________________________________________________ Stop the presses, hold the panic, ...
• How many Wisconsin DATCP goons does it take to inv ...
   The PPJ Gazette If you want a glimpse of what is ahead for you if S.510 passes, here it is.   These are Wisconsin predators, employed by DATCP to act under the color of law and against the people.  Earning from 65,000 thousand a year to as much as 105,000 per year, the goons in this [...]

Open Your Eyes News

• Combat brigades in Iraq under different name
  Army Times – As the final convoy of the Armyâs 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., entered Kuwait early Thursday, a different Stryker brigade remained in Iraq. Soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division are deployed in Iraq as members o ...
• U.S. Weighs Expanded Strikes in Yemen
  Wall Street Journal – U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration will mount a more intense targeted killing program in Yemen..Such a move would give the ...
• UK: Avastin prolongs life but drug is too expensiv ...
  The Guardian – Cancer drug can help patients with advanced bowel cancer but treatment costs £21,000. Campaigners last night criticised the health watchdog after it ruled that a drug was too expensive to be prescribed on the NHS â despite evidence that it can prolong life in bowel cancer patients. ...
• Baghdad blast kills 11
  ABC – A suicide truck bomber has killed at least 11 people and wounded 34 others in an attack on a police station in the Iraqi capital. The blast took place in Baghdad’s northern Qahira district, security sources said Read Article
• Geoengineering won’t undo sea level rises
  New Scientist-Almost all the technologies for geoengineering our way out of climate change fail a key test: they can’t stop the sea from rising and swamping low-lying countries. “You can’t slap the brakes on sea levels now,” says John Moore of Beijing Normal University in China. “There’s too much in ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Gulf oil spill: Most of the oil remains
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a controversial “oil spill budget” Aug. 2 estimating that a large part of the oil released into the Gulf of Mexico by the Deepwater Horizon spill was gone. But in a hearing on...
• Gulf oil spill: Well kill not expected until after ...
  A complete sealing of the BP oil well is not likely to occur until sometime after Labor Day, the federal government’s spill response chief said Thursday. The delay is necessary because federal officials are requiring that BP engineers take new,...
• Gulf oil spill: BP accused of withholding evidence ...
  The company that owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico is accusing BP of withholding what it describes as critical evidence needed to investigate the cause of worst maritime oil spill in history, according...
• Gulf oil spill: Tests still needed before troubled ...
  Engineers will conduct more tests on BP's troubled oil well before deciding how to proceed with a plan to kill it for good, a government officials said Wednesday. Thad Allen, the federal spill response chief, told reporters that crews planned...
• Gulf oil spill: scientists assess health effects
  Days after a vacationing President Obama swam in gulf waters and tasted fish caught off the coast of Florida, scientists with the Natural Resources Defense Council said the gulf oil spill probably still will have far-reaching health effects on both...

water.org

• Videos to support Water.org (One Day on Earth)
  Support Water.org with your video creation (One Day on Earth)  - CALL TO ACTION: Share video of your water Without water, life would not exist. It is a prerequisite for all human and economic development. This 10.10.10 we invite you to share with the world how you access life’s most precious commodi ...
• Water.org at TEDxKC (Brainzooming)
  What the World Needs Now â Innovative Ideas from TEDxKC â Part II (Brainzooming) – For whatever reason, McCamonâs TEDxKC presentation was incredibly brief. It provided staggering statistics about the amount of solid human waste thatâs left untreated globally in a world where more people have ...
• Matt Damon’s trip to Ethiopia for water (Top Cel.)
  Matt Damonâs trip to Ethiopia to advocate for clean water (Top Celebrity Headlines) – Matt Damon is advocating for clean water and plumbing throughout the world as part of the charity he co-founded, Water.org. He appeared in a video for CNN to show how difficult it is for people in rural northern ...
• Barclay Martin helping Kenya with Water.org (Pitch ...
  Listen to the Barclay Martin Ensemble’s first single from its new album (The Pitch) – This record represents a culmination of years of study, practice, writing and love of making music together. It is a departure stylistically from our previous releases, perhaps a deeper understanding after years of ...
• Bono Street Team: Water.org
  Bono Street Team: Water.org (Bono Street Team) – Water.org is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. They have featured projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Read full Bono Street Team arti ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

• The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
  The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

Margaret's News

• Ministry rejects 56 foreign childrens' legal statu ...
  So far, 487 requests have been lodged to Interior Ministry, of which one-tenth have been rejected. Time allotted for non-resident families to voluntarily leave to expire in 2 weeks. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Lieberman: Settlement building should restart in S ...
  "We cannot punish tens of thousands of citizens who have served in the army and live in legal communities," Lieberman said. "We should take natural growth into consideration, as did the previous administration." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The religious coercion train
  Ever since segregation was banned on buses in the southern United States, it has not occurred to anyone in the free world to demand that transportation be segregated by race or religious creed. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Poll: Americans believe Islam no more prone to vio ...
  Republicans voiced negative views of Muslims by more than 2-1. Among Democrats,41 percent had favorable opinions while 27 percent viewed them negatively. Views of Muslims were also unfavorable among independents, older people and those with less education Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
• Counterpoint: Land and Sovereignty
  When a Palestinian olive grower weeps at the sight of Israeli settlers uprooting his trees, it is not because the Bible or Koran tells him to. It is because he no longer has olives to press into oil. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Dust Removing Technology Used on Mars Could Increa ...
  large Dust removing technology developed by NASA for robotic machines working on Mars might be an ideal application on solar panels.
• Australia’s Largest Rooftop Solar Panel Installati ...
  large Sanyo and Apollo Energy recently unveiled what is being touted as the largest commercially-funded rooftop solar panel installation in Australia. The 200-kilowatt solar ...
• EBOOM CAPITAL: Solar Sector Contrasts Spectacular ...
  large These are some of the manufacturing facilities of China-based solar sector winner JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: JKS), whose shares are up 125 percent since its M ...
• Light Sanctuary: United Arab Emirates Desert Solar ...
  large Keeping with the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) architectural aesthetic appeal, a new proposal for a field of solar ribbon dubbed the "Light Sanctuary" , both plays the r ...
• Solimpeks' Hybrid Solar Collector: An Advancement ...
  large Turkish company, Solimpeks Corp ., has launched its latest version of a hybrid solar collector, a photovoltaic (PV) panel that simultaneously produces electricity and ...

News Blaze

• Troubled Camp for Displaced in Darfur Focus of Tal ...
  Mr. Yonis emphasized the collaboration between the Sudanese Government and UNAMID in ensuring the safety and security of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kalma, noting the mission's commitment to upholding calm and order in the South
• Senegalese General Appointed Adviser to UN Peaceke ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye as military adviser for United Nations peacekeeping operations.
• Urgent Solutions Needed for Bosnia's Displaced Say ...
  The acclaimed actress and activist, called for urgent measures to improve the lives of the displaced, many of whom are elderly or ill and are barely able to look after themselves.
• Donations Needed For UN To Help Central African Re ...
  The UN agency is facing a $15 million shortfall over the next eight months to provide food assistance to some 600,000 people mainly in the conflict-affected northern part of the country.
• Briefing on the Global Shale Gas Initiative Confer ...
  David L. Goldwyn, Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Briefs on the Global Shale Gas Initiative Conference

Historical Notes

• Fidel Castro
• Fidel Castro History Archive
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• Castro Speech database

libcom

• Garment and construction workers strikes in Cambod ...
  100823_2[1].jpg In the past few days, a garment workers' strike has found itself in conflict with bosses, local authorities and union officials while last week, construction workers struck in solidarity w ...
• Is this farewell, welfare?
  axe.png The government’s answer to the problem of unemployment during the biggest economic crisis since the 1930s is not to create any new jobs, but to launch a massive attack on our living standards. ...
• Academy schools programme expanded
  0728classroom[1].jpg A new Education Bill is set to massively extend Labour’s controversial Academies programme. The Education Secretary Michael Gove has now added Ofsted-graded “o ...
• Strikes off, cuts on at universities
  712-sussex-uni-flag-lg[1].jpg The academics’ union UCU at the University of Sussex cancelled industrial action planned for late June after university bosses declared they were “hopeful” they could avoid ...
• NOT all in this together
  job-centre-2008-09_1465553c[1].jpg The Government’s “tough but fair” budget will hit the poorest the hardest, as well as having a disproportionate impact on women, two reports have found. ...

Free Range International

• The Dog Days of Summer
  Many apologies for the delay on posting.  I was laid low by some sort of viral affliction which mimicked  malaria.  Like most people who get sick maybe once a decade, when I do catch a bug you would think I was on death’s door I’m such a sissy about it.  But the fever is gone [...]
• The Good Don’t Always Die Young
  The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man.  He was humble, self-effacing, and competent.  He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...
• Getting After It
  One of the Chim Chim’s dropped in for a visit last month.  He was on some sort of training inspection type team which I didn’t ask too much about and told us that every-time he asked officers from the unit he was looking at what they were doing the reply was “getting after it.”  They [...]
• Losing Hearts and Minds
  Ben Arnoldy at the Christen Science Monitor penned an excellent tale on reconstruction efforts going pear shaped and the consequences resulting from such folly.  It is an excellent piece of reporting from one of the truly professional foreign correspondents working the country today.  The report was ...
• Restrepo
  Last week Kanani Fong at The Kitchen Dispatch arranged an interview for me with Tim Hertherington, who along with Sebastian Junger produced the award winning documentary Restrepo.   Kanani signed onto the Restrepo team to spearhead a public relations effort, in conjunction with National Geographic, ...

The Story Behind the Story

• IMPORTANT INFO ON MORTGAGES!!!!
  Every homeowner in America needs to read this very carefully. Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? August 20th, 2010 | Author: Stephanie Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the ...
• WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CAP AND TRADE (Cra ...
  If You Own A Home You Better Read This .. What we can expect if “Cap & Trade” legislation is enacted? We thought we were in trouble in this nation before, but just wait.  It CAN get MUCH WORSE!! Well read this one, it is all verified and double-checked and reference links are at the [...]
• BARRACK OBAMA INDICTED FOR MURDER???
  Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Posted on July 25, 2010 by Eowyn Donald Young http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.c…ver-speaks-up/ In late May, Wash. DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen had a bombshell revelation about Obamaâs membershi ...
• Dov Zakheim Retires — OH PLEASE!!!!
  Dov Zakheim retires from Booz Allen Hamilton Jerry Mazza Online Journal Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:22 EDT For those of you who don’t know who Dov Zakheim is, let me refresh your memory. The ordained rabbi served as comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, when he resigned to go [... ...
• OBAMA —- The Changeling
  Obama — The Changeling (Change you can REALLY Believe In.) By A. True Ott, PhD In a standard deck of playing cards, the Joker card is wild.  It can be anything you want or need it to be, from an ace to a lowly deuce.   Jokers are great to have in the deck when playing [...]

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
  Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
• Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
  He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
  We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
• Dr. Shana Kelley, University of Toronto (October 3 ...
  Research labs around the world are on the constant hunt for new ways of fighting one of the world's great killers - cancer. In one lab in Toronto, exciting promise on a new technique for early detection. The possibilities are endless: for fighting cancer, and other diseases, both here in our world, ...
• Dr. Susy Hota, Infectious Diseases Specialist (Oct ...
  Are you tired of hearing about HINI -- the swine flu? That's not surprising because there's been a half year of information coming your way -- some of it contradictory, much of it confusing. This week's guest helps us get down to basics -- what you need to know, and why you need to know it.

Scotts Contracting

• Renewable Energy-Electric Power Lines-Transmission ...
  In the Transmission Line Debate I’ve included my comments on the Article. scotts-contracting-171793 August 20, 2010 Grid, Smart Grid, New Transmission Lines- What a Crock of ___. If more people utilized their own Renewable Energy Production for Home or Business … Continue reading →
• Political Contributions-Dirty $money$-Oil Pay Offs
  No More Dirty Energy Money!
• End Big Oil Bail Outs
  Dear Scotts, Thanks for asking Congress to end the bailouts to big oil. Can you help spread the word before it’s too late by telling 5 friends? If you are on Facebook, click here to post the petition to your … Continue reading →
• Politics and Oil-Follow the $money$
• Chinese Drywall-Warning Signals-Detection
  Warning Signals There are several problems caused by the Chinese drywall. How can a problem be detected? Look for these signs: The drywall releases sulfur dioxide gas creating sulfuric acid. There is a smell like rotten eggs. Unfortunately, not all … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Lies, Intolerance, and Disrespect for the Rule of ...
  The latest debate over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is replete with lies, intolerance and disrespect for the law.
• Tocqueville as Prophet
  Fed poised for another round of quantitative easing.
• U.S. Property Rights in Line with Tenets of Commun ...
  Treatment of private property in America would make Lenin smile.
• As Usual, Government Regulation as Political Payof ...
  The financial regulation measure before the Senate will only benefit the big banks. Surprise, Surprise!
• Drug Czar Supports More of the Same
  A new report calls for ending the Drug War; the drug czar isn't buying it.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Postcard From...Futenma
  Okinawans are nowhere to be seen at this summer's U.S. military appreciation day at the controversial Futenma air base.
• Los Alamos Watchdog Shoots an Arrow at the Beating ...
  A nuclear watchdog files a complaint against the Department of Energy to halt the construction of a facility for manufacturing nuclear pits.
• Review: The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars B ...
  Tom Engelhardt chronicles how the United States has succumbed to infinite war.
• Wrestling with the Khmer Rouge Legacy
  The United States bombed Cambodia and supported the Khmer Rouge after its fall from power. Why are Washington and the mainstream media ignoring this complicity?
• What You Will Not Hear About Iraq
  In occupied Iraq, the population living in urban slums has skyrocketed. Why haven't we heard more about this shocking statistic?

Law.com

• Pepper Hamilton Sues FDIC Over Legal Fees
  Pepper Hamilton has sued the FDIC after it classified as unsecured Pepper Hamilton's claims for fees involving work done for the FDIC and a division of bankrupt Advanta Corp. The law firm also raised claims of quantum meruit, unjust enrichment, common fund doctrine and a declaration that the FDIC's ...
• Calif. Legislature OKs Expedited Jury Trials
  A bill that provides for expedited, streamlined jury trials in California has cruised out of the state Legislature with a unanimous vote. Insurers and both the plaintiff and defense bars are enthusiastic about the system, which proponents say would not only cut litigation costs for plaintiffs, defen ...
• Will Solicitor General Weigh In on Proposition 8 ...
  The federal government is not a party to the Proposition 8 litigation, but the Justice Department could weigh in as amicus curiae -- either when the case arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court or, sooner, before the 9th Circuit. Such a decision would typically be up to Acting Solicitor General Neal Katya ...
• Is 'Private' Data on Social Networks Discoverable?
  Duane Morris' Alan Klein, John Lyons, and Andrew Sperl examine a federal ruling that appears to offer the first in-depth analysis of the effect of many social networking sites' "privacy settings" and the issue of whether federal privacy laws protect data from electronic discovery.
• After Almost 8 Years, Simpson Thacher Wins Summary ...
  United States Fidelity & Guaranty, now part of Travelers, has been fighting since 2002 to recoup reinsurance payments for about half of its $987 million settlement with an asbestos policyholder. For Travelers and its lawyers at Simpson Thacher, a New York judge's ruling in the case last week was wor ...

Iranian.com

• Death sentence fears for Dutch-Iranian woman
  It has emerged that a Dutch-Iranian woman has been in prison in Iran since the end of last year on suspicion of subversion. Zahra Bahrami is said to have been tortured while in custody. The Dutch foreign ministry says she could face the death penalty. The Dutch ambassador is not being allowed to off ...
• S. Korea sends high-level delegation to U.S. for t ...
  SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo headed to the United States Tuesday for talks on sanctions against Iran, an official said, as Seoul weighs possible financial measures to meet Washington's demand for more sanctions against Tehran. Chun will visit the U.S ...
• Video: Iran Propaganda debunked in less than 6 min ...
  In less than six minutes Iran propaganda debunked on camera. Millions of US and Zio-fascist dollars could not seems so worthless in the propaganda war waged against Iran.
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• Ahmadinejad to visit Lebanon on September 11-12
  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will pay a two-day visit to Lebanon on September 11-12, As-Safir newspaper said on Tuesday. As-Safir said Ahmadinejad is expected to meet Lebanon’s top officials and an array of Lebanese political figures. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part V
  Contemporary Solutions In The ABCs of the Economic Crisis , contemporary Marxists Magdoff and Yates also express the view that capitalism is on its last legs. They, like Strachey, propose “socialism” as the solution to a failed capitalist system. However they are even less prescriptive than ...
• Is Capitalism Doomed? – Part V
  Contemporary Solutions In The ABCs of the Economic Crisis , contemporary Marxists Magdoff and Yates also express the view that capitalism is on its last legs. They, like Strachey, propose “socialism” as the solution to a failed capitalist system. However they are even less prescriptive than he is as ...
• Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part IV
  Implications for the Future In general, Marxists believe the economic laws that govern capitalism make it inherently flawed – dooming it to eventual failure. They also see a grave risk that the collapse of capitalism will bring down civilization with it. Which is why they argue for workers to h ...
• Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part III
  Fascism In The Coming Struggle for Power , Strachey also writes about the important role of fascism associated with end stage capitalism. He explains how declining profits and growth will result in reduced wages, poorer working conditions and a claw back of social welfare benefits enacted d ...
• Is Capitalism Doomed? – Part III
  Fascism In The Coming Struggle for Power , Strachey also writes about the important role of fascism associated with end stage capitalism. He explains how declining profits and growth will result in reduced wages, poorer working conditions and a claw back of social welfare benefits enacted during mor ...

Free Movement

• Right to work for asylum seekers
  UKBA has laid Statement of Changes CM7929 to give effect (or, at least, limited effect) to the judgment of the Supreme Court in ZO (Somalia) [2010] UKSC 36. This was the case in which the Court held that an asylum claim is still an asylum claim for the purposes of the Reception Directive whether it ...
• Post Pankina Rules Update
  Following Pankina, UKBA laid Statement of Changes HC382, different parts of which came into effect on 23 July and 12 August 2010. The main changes were to incorporate into the main Immigration Rules some provisions that had previously featured only in the policy guidance and which were declared unla ...
• Temporary immigration cap
  I still use this blog as my own personal note book of developments I might well want to look up later. I’m currently updating and re-writing the HJT Immigration Manual (ready first week of September in time for the next round of accreditation, available now for a reduced price if pre-ordering) and t ...
• UKBA seek feedback on settlement application proce ...
  Anyone with recent experience of applying for settlement may wish to help UKBA by completing a feedback form, available here.
• Rights of children a primary consideration
  Yet more good news, this time for children and their parents. In LD (Article 8 best interests of child) Zimbabwe [2010] UKUT 278 (IAC) the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has found that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is highly relevant to Article 8 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• The Bomb-Iran Debate From Hell
  America's march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, a similarly flawed media conversation on Iran is gaining momentum. Last month, TIME's J ...
• HALLIBURTON AWARDED LETTER OF INTENT FOR DEVELOPM ...
  HOUSTON, TX and DUBAI, UAE – Aug. 18, 2010 – Halliburton has been awarded a letter of intent by Shell Iraq Petroleum Development B.V. for the development of the Majnoon field in Southern Iraq. The giant Majnoon field is one of the world's largest oilfields. The letter of intent provides that Hal ...
• Needed: a new economic paradigm
  The blame game continues over who is responsible for the worst recession since the Great Depression – the financiers who did such a bad job of managing risk or the regulators who failed to stop them. But the economics profession bears more than a little culpability. It provided the models that gav ...
• The Guns of August
  In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it� The Guns of August . It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.� She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal documents and information not a ...
• The National Security Mosque
  The furor over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero makes me think back to one of the most important lessons I learned from al Qaeda terrorists I interrogated--that they have a warped view of America. To them--and this they get from Osama Bin Laden's rhetoric--the U.S. is ...

Salon

• McCain wins renomination, novice shines in Fla.
  Veteran Sen. John McCain sailed to the GOP nomination Tuesday in Arizona over a challenger with tea party support, while political novice Rick Scott pushed past an experienced insider to win Florida's Republican gubernatorial primary as voters split on the merits of establishment candidates vs. outs ...
• Bloomberg again defends religious freedom
  New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been at the forefront of the fight in favor of religious freedom in lower Manhattan since the beginning of the "ground zero mosque" debate, weighed in on the issue again tonight at the annual Iftar dinner at Gracie Mansion.
• Ex-FEMA chief plans live broadcasts in New Orleans
  Former FEMA Director Michael Brown is taking his Denver radio show on the road for live broadcasts from New Orleans in advance of Sunday's fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
• Justice Department will appeal ruling in stem cell ...
  The Obama administration will appeal a court ruling that undercut its efforts to expand stem cell research, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
• Adventures in counterintuitive pundit thinking
  The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder is asking pointed, provocative questions!

SMB News

• Iran working against Iraqi democracy: US general
  WASHINGTON: Iran is funding extremist groups in Iraq out of fear of a strong democracy as a neighbor, the commander of US forces in Iraq said Sunday. “I think they don’t want to see Iraq turn into a strong democratic country, General Ray Odierno told CNN. “They would rather see it become a weak gove ...
• New flood tide roars into Dera Allah Yar
  JAFFERABAD: High flood tide raged its way into Jafferabad area of Dera Allah Yar, rendering thousands of people homeless, these stranded people are waiting for help, Geo News reported Monday. The new flood tide further exacerbated the situation in the area where people are present on the high places ...
• Enraged flood victims get physical with police, Ra ...
  SUKKUR: Floods continue to cause devastation in Sukkur and rendered thousands of people stranded in various areas while enraged flood victims burned tyres, blocked road and exchanged blows with police and Rangers after one of the affectees died in a relief camp here at Sukkur-Shikarpur Road. The wat ...
• Qaeda’s cause is gross distortion of Islam: Obama
  Qaedaâs cause is gross distortion of Islam: ObamaWASHINGTON: In a passionate defense of religious freedom, President Barack Obama on Friday waded into a bitter controversy by defending the right of Muslims to build a mosque just blocks from Ground Zero. “As a citizen, and as president, I believe t ...
• Do they lock Geo More news from Zardari to throw s ...
  Karachi: Geo News blocked the transfer of the road at night in a cold portion of the new country after the news sent threw shoes at President Zardari’s party time in Birmingham, Geo News reported sources as kabelexploitanten zeggend. Meanwhile, many of the singer kabelexploitanten in Karachi was bad ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Hockey’s head games
  The World Hockey Summit has an ambitious agenda to map out the sport’s future growth.
• Chiefs’defence of gun registry
  Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair makes a compelling case for supporting Canada’s long-gun registry: we register vehicles, so why wouldn’t we register something as potentially deadly as rifles and shotguns?
• A tree falls in Holland
  She loved its fluttering leaves and small blossoms. To Anne Frank, a spirited Jewish teenager hiding from the Nazi rape of Europe, the massive, ancient chestnut tree she could glimpse from her Amsterdam attic window was a precious sign of life and ...
• Regicide can be suicide
  Regicide is never as easy as it looks. As Australia’s governing Labour Party discovered over the weekend, it’s not so much political disloyalty that voters dislike, but the lazy thinking that so often lies behind it: the assumption that changing le ...
• Growing case for G20 probe
  Christopher Miller was charged with mischief for writing “Shame on you” in charcoal on a sidewalk at police headquarters.

Energy Collective

• FutureGen Switches Tracks
  The standard knock on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is that it hasn't been tested and proven on an industrial scale. That's really only true in the narrow sense in which you start with coal, produce electricity, and then collect and bury the CO2 that comes out the stack--which I imagine is ...
• If Politicians Really Want ‘Clean Coal,’ a Price o ...
• Leading the Clean Energy Charge: An Interview with ...
  Aggressive new efforts are underway to end the U.S. military’s reliance on oil by catalyzing clean energy technology innovation and adoption.
• Canada’s Largest Solar Rooftop, Case Study Part Th ...
  Operational since early 2010, the huge 800-panel solar rooftop system costs $1.85 million to build. The third part of this case study focuses on financial details. We look at the startup costs, operating costs, income from the high profile Ontario Feed-In Tariff program , and most importantly, the p ...
• Can the Military Lead the Clean Energy Charge?
  Aggressive new efforts are underway to end the U.S. military’s reliance on oil by catalyzing clean energy technology innovation and adoption.

EU Times

• Turkey tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions o ...
  Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic’s contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons ...
• Official US Deficit Put At Staggering $202 Trillio ...
  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts the U.S. budget deficit will hit $1.3 trillion this year. An astronomical figure, to be sure, but thatâs lower than was projected in March. Itâs also less than last yearâs record $1.41 trillion deficit, which was close to 10% of GDP. And, that’s ...
• Goldman Sachs accused of trying to destroy China
  Goldman Sachs & Co., reviled in the U.S. for its role in the financial crisis, is now getting hammered in the world’s No. 2 economy with a sensationalist new book accusing the investment bank of trying to destroy China. The “Goldman Sachs Conspiracy,” which has sold over 100,000 copies since it was ...
• Italy inspired by France to expel citizens from ot ...
  Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday (21 August) that French president Ni ...
• Chilean miners found alive after being trapped but ...
  We’re alive! TV images of Chilean miners 18 DAYS after being trapped… but it could be Christmas before they are rescued * Miners’ message from 2,300ft below: ‘All 33 of us are fine in the shelter’ * It will take months to get them out, say experts * Men are in a mine shaft shelter [...]

Stonecipher News

• Education: What Does It Mean For Your Child
  From my Factoidz page: The PACER Center is a Minnesota training and information center funded by the U. S. Department of Education Office of Special Education (n.d., http://www.pacer.org/) writes an article for LD online explaining to lay people the evaluation process for special education. The arti ...
• Tests and Measurements for the Parent, Teacher, Ad ...
  Peter and Pam Wright compose a comprehensive article for parents, teachers, advocates and attorneys. The purpose of which is to help lay people and professionals recognize the value of reading and understanding educational test scores. Attorney Peter Wright Esq., and Psychotherapist Pam Wright who ...
• Fetal Xrays Can Cause Memory Loss and Schizophreni ...
  Alarming as it sounds, I hardly doubt Fetal Xrays can cause Schizophrenia . Schizophrenia is often misdiagnosed by psychiatrists who look for a reasoning for someone's memory loss. In fact, less than 1% of the population actually has Schizophrenia, so I'm in question about these findings.� ...
• Vitamin C Deficiency Symptoms and Why Vitamin C is ...
  According to Dr. Kristie Leong : Vitamin C deficiency disease, such as scurvy, is less common these days due to the easy availability of vitamin C rich foods. On the other hand, some people need more vitamin C to stay healthy. Are you one of them? Vitamin C is most commonly found in fresh fruits an ...
• Breakthrough Cord Blood Infusion Reverses Cerebral ...
  According to Jo Oliver : Cord blood cells are taken at birth, before the infant is exposed to any environmental factors. It is also advantageous because the cells are younger and smarter. Once the cord blood is re-infused into the person, the cells migrate to wherever the person is injured and immed ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• A Debate on the Invisible Hand Continues
  David Friedman writes: ‘ And I remain puzzled as to how you can believe that the comment about the invisible hand was only about preferring local to foreign investment at nearly equal profits, when Smith both provides another example and says that his comment is true of many other... Tags: invisible ...
• Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
  Despite the appearance of a revenge thriller, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is a story about helplessness. Ryu (Ha-Kyun Shin) a deaf, dumb and low income factory worker has a sister who desperately needs a kidney transplant. They care for each other very much, being each other's only... Tags: helplessn ...
• In Which We Are Feeling A Lot More Solipsistic Tha ...
  No Room for Muses by KARINA WOLF Where else can you be paranoid and right so often? All of Manhattan is Woody Allen’s Manhattan : the reservoir, the restaurants, the skyline, the shrink’s office, the horse and carriage, the modern art, Central Park, Minetta Lane, the Great White... Tags: aggression ...
• Why isn’t Georgia’s home opener sold out?
  ATHENS — Georgia still has tickets for sale to the Sept. 4 season opener against Louisiana-Lafayette -– but not to any of the other five home football games, including Idaho State. So why is the opener not yet a sellout? “The way contracts work with certain schools, they... Tags: football games sanf ...
• Germans Terrified They're Ruining Their Relationsh ...
  All is improving in Germany, as the economic numbers show, and there is a consensus that the country did the right thing in the recession by exporting more goods abroad and expanding government spending at home. But there are also rising worries that Germany's success, particularly... Tags: recessio ...

Groklaw

• Supreme Court told P2P users can be "innocent infr ...
  Two prominent lawyers in the fight against RIAA P2P lawsuits have taken their battle to the Supreme Court. Today, Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson and "Recording Industry vs. the People" blogger/lawyer Ray Beckerman joined with a few other law professors to ask the Supreme Court not to gut copyr ...
• Google Gets Complete Win in Rosetta Stone Case
  Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google Inc., 1:09-cv-00736-GBL-TCB (E.D. Va.). Opinion granting Google's motion to dismiss filed August 3, 2010, 2010 WL 3063152. Order granting Google's motion to dismiss the unjust enrichment claim filed August 2, 2010, 2010 WL 3063857.... The opinions are finally out, and ...
• Patent Attorney Backgrounds
  Professors Ralph Clifford, Tom Field, and Jon Cavicchi have published an interesting study on the technical backgrounds of patent attorneys and agents. After the trio submitted a FOIA request, the PTO handed-over 50,000 pages of patent bar registration applications. Using that information, the trio ...
• Free That Tenor Sax
  The museum paid for the discs, but cannot distribute the music until it has found a way to compensate the estates of the musicians, many of which may be very difficult to track down after all these decades. Hawkins's saxophone solo on "Body and Soul" may be reason enough for Congress to revisit this ...
• Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymo ...
  About four months ago, Ed Felten blogged about a research paper in which Hari Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp, and I detailed serious security flaws in India's electronic voting machines. Indian election authorities have repeatedly claimed that the machines are "tamperproof," but we demonstrated important vul ...

  Blacklisted News

• Bancor: The Name Of The Global Currency That A Sho ...
  Sometimes there are things that are so shocking that you just do not want to report them unless they can be completely and totally documented.�
• Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Rovin ...
  American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents, Joe Reiss, a vice president of marketing at ...
• Space Warfare: Preparing the "Battlespace" for A N ...
  Secretive Mini-Shuttles and Spy Satellites
• NORAD-Russian Joint Air Drill, Bomber Incursions a ...
  The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Russian Federation Air Force conducted a cooperative air defense exercise from August 8-11 that focused on combating terrorism.
• Analyst: Dow To 5,000, Lost Decade For Stocks
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average will lose about half of its value over the next couple of years as it follows a Nikkei-like pattern of several sharp rallies in an overall decline, according to Charles Nenner, founder and president of Charles Nenner research.

The Intelligence Daily

• Major reports point to oil supply turmoil and pric ...
  By Matthew Wild Major energy reports published this year are pointing to a significant rise in the...
• Obama Plays Down Plan for Post-2011 Iraq Troop Pre ...
  By Gareth Porter When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised...
• Washington Orders Shahbaz Airbase Saved, not Pakis ...
  By Stephen Lendman With 20 million or more people affected, about 12% of the population, the...
• Home Sales Drop 27 Percent In July And Things Are ...
  By Michael T Snyder On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors announced that existing home...
• Part II: U.S.-China Crisis: Beyond Words To Confro ...
  Rick Rozoff On August 16 the U.S. and its South Korean military ally began this year’s Ulchi...

My AntiWar

• Pakistan Moves Choppers From Taliban Fight to Reli ...
• Russian Troops Kill Ingush Militant Leader
• Iraq Receives New Mi-17 Helicopters From Russia
• Pakistan Flooding Disrupts Afghan War Supply Lines
• Hunger-Striking Guantnamo Detainees Are Being Forc ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran bomb 'not imminent'
  Summary: The White House issued a statement saying that Iran's nuclear programme has slowed down due to unforeseen problems and that it would take at least a year for Iran to be in a position to "break out" and develop a bomb. According to the New York Times,the administration believes their new ...
• Just like Bushehr, Iranian enrichment is no threat
  Summary: Bushehr Nuclear Reactor In recent days, a good deal of attention has been focused on Iran’s first nuclear power plant at Bushehr, still in its final stages of development. We believe that there are some important lessons to be learned from the Bushehr experiences that could help move U ...
• Iran: Any Israeli attack on Iran would constitute ...
  Summary: Ambassador Sajadi Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mahmoud Rida Sajadi told Al-Manar Website that any reckless and irrational move or game against the Islamic Republic could take America and its interests out of this region. In a special interview after the inauguration of the Busheher nuc ...
• Ankara tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions o ...
  Summary: Turkey Iran Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic's contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at d ...
• Leverett vs Gerecht - Debate on bombing Iran
  Summary: On www.bloggingheads.tv Flynt Leverett, political analyst of the New America Foundation, debates The Standard Weekly´s Marc Gerecht on the pros and cons of bombing Iran. source: Bloggingheads.tv read more

The Daily Galaxy

• Milky Way's Center Yields Clues to the Origins of ...
  Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from Earth for new, complex molecules in interstellar space that...
• Stephen Hawking on Space Colonization - The Human ...
  Humans have always been fascinated by the idea of space travel. Some even believe that colonizing new planets is man’s best hope for the future. The popular idea is that we’ll eventually need some fresh, unexploited new worlds to inhabit...
• Supermassive Black Holes Discovered Devouring Whol ...
  Black holes -Stephen Hawking's enigmatic "bad boys of the Universe"- have been discovered to have the ability to strip massive galaxies of the cool gases required to form new stars, leaving ageing red giants to fade out of existence with...
• Did Early DNA Replicate at the Bottom of the Sea?
  Lab experiments reveal that the precursor of life may have learned how to copy itself thanks to simple convection at the bottom of the ocean in tiny pores around undersea hydrothermal vents where magnesium-rich rocks react with sea water, creating...
• Are Boom-and-Bust Cycles Hardwired in Human DNA?
  Boom and bust is not unique to capitalist economies, to industrialized societies, it's a cycle common to all of life, from the most primitive level to the most complex. Over three billion years ago, bacteria had a cycle of boom...

Natural News

• Mesquite flour is a high-protein, low-glycemic sup ...
  (NaturalNews) When I lived in the Sonoran desert in Arizona, I used to take long daily walks for exercise and adventure. I would go far off the beaten path and hike through dry washes, weaving my way through all the astonishing desert plants, many of which are highly medicinal, by the way. I also ha ...
• Scientists find natural weight loss secret: clini ...
  (NaturalNews) If something sounds too good to be true, the old saying goes, it probably is. But here's an exception: scientists have documented that an all natural appetite-control agent with no side effects really does help people shed excess weight -- and what's more, it's practically free. Scient ...
• Fish oil helps teenage boys fight depression
  (NaturalNews) Japanese researchers have discovered yet another benefit to fish oil -- treatment for depression. According to a study out of the University of Tokyo, teenage boys who eat a lot of oily fish have a 27 percent reduced risk of depression compared to those who eat little oily fish. Fish r ...
• GlaxoSmithKline pushing dangerous Avandia drug on ...
  (NaturalNews) Back in February, I wrote an article about how a Senate Finance Committee report revealed that GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of the diabetes drug Avandia, knew that its drug was dangerous and caused heart attacks; yet GSK went out of its way to hide this important information from the pub ...
• Protestors of toxic GM crops resort to literally d ...
  (NaturalNews) Biotechnology giants like Monsanto continue to push their genetically-modified (GM) crop seeds on the nations of the world, in most cases bypassing the clear will of the people in the process. But some people have decided that enough is enough. For the second time in two years, a group ...

Threat Level

• Facebook Lawsuit Throws the -book at Social Networ ...
  Facebook has sued a little-known website for educators called Teachbook, claiming Facebook literally owns the “book” when it comes to naming social networking sites. “Misappropriating the distinctive book portion of Facebook’s trademark, defendant has created its own competing online networking com ...
• Touchscreen E-Voting Machine Reprogrammed to Play ...
  It turns out paperless touchscreen voting machines are actually good for something after all. Two computer-security researchers recently hacked this Sequoia AVC Edge to play the classic arcade videogame Pac-Man. They picked up the machine after it was decommissioned in Virginia in a statewide purge ...
• Court: Death Threats Addressed to Corporations Are ...
  An Arizona man who plotted a massacre outside the 2008 Super Bowl had his conviction overturned Monday by a federal appeals court because his snailmailed death threats went to no specific targets. The case concerned Kurt William Havelock, who drove to the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, with a newl ...
• Researcher Arrested in India After Disclosing Prob ...
  A security researcher in India has been arrested after he refused to provide authorities with the name of a person who supplied him with an electronic voting machine that was used to discover vulnerabilities in the system. The researcher had used the machine to demonstrate how someone could hack vo ...
• Court Overturns Order Blocking Newspaper From Prin ...
  A California appeals court has overturned a Los Angeles judge’s order that prohibited the Los Angeles Times from publishing a photo of a quadruple murder defendant. “We conclude the superior court’s order precluding publication of photographs lawfully taken unconstitutionally violates the prohibitio ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• John Boehner's Fuzzy Math and Missing Cojones
  With his much-hyped call for the firing of President Obama's economic team, House Minority Leader John Boehner ensured his speech in Cleveland today would get a lot of attention. But sadly for the would-be House Speaker, the address also spotlighted his unique combination of political cowardice and ...
• The Bush Tax Cuts in Pictures
  On Monday, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman summed up Republicans wanting to make permanent the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. At a time of record income inequality and massive budget deficits , Republican "politicians are eager to cut checks aver ...
• Vacation, All He Ever Wanted
  Among the latest claims of Republican mythmakers is that Barack Obama is not only a secret Muslim , but one who takes too many days off. Of course, the charge is hardly new. In May 2009 , the Republican National Committee sneered, "Have a great Saturday evening - even if you're not jetting off som ...
• A New One Year Deadline for Middle East Peace
  After ignoring the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict for most of his time in office, President Bush in January 2008 predicted the success of his belated Annapolis peace process . "I believe it's going to happen, that there will be a signed peace treaty by the time I leave office," he announced ...
• Obama's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  As a quick glance online shows, President Obama's sagging popularity is producing a cottage industry for political diagnosticians. In the Washington Post, former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson proclaims "the lost promise of Barack Obama" even as his colleague Eugene Robinson touts "President Obam ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Untitled
  Bidding is still running on these beautiful Eliza Gauger art pieces.
• New York State Senate passes gas drilling (frackin ...
  ByJerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted atOnline Journal www.jerrymazza.com August 13, 2010 It isnt often these days that the good guys win one. But heres a beautiful example of a successful effort so far by the activist groupCatskill Mountainkeeper and friends. The fight to preven ...
• The Women Who Won't Abandon the Gulf
  While the two main industries on the Gulf Coast, oil and fishing, are both male-dominated, it’s women who are now in leadership roles picking up after this latest mess.
• Gas Is Really Costing Us About $15 a Gallon
  Calculating the true cost of living in a country built on oil.
• EPA defers hearing on fracking By Jerry Mazza
  ByJerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.jerrymazza.com August 13, 2010 The New York Times and Catskill Mountainkeeper have reported that the EPAs last hearing on fracking, held in Canonsburg, Pa. in July drew over 1200 people without a hitch. Unfortunately, the follow-up, all-day hearing t ...

Consortium News

• Mosque Furor Endangers US Troops
  The Right is making political hay over a mosque near Ground Zero, but US troops may pay with their lives, writes Robert Parry. August 18, 2010
• Old-Time Bigotry Alive in America
  The screaming over a mosque near 9/11's Ground Zero reflects America's deepseated nativism, observes Michael Winship. August 17, 2010
• Making the US Look Small to the World
  Right-wing operatives whipping up anger over a Lower Manhattan mosque make America look hypocritical, says Alvaro Vargas Llosa. August 17, 2010
• Letting the Banksters 'Settle'
  Instead of jail time, the banksters who tanked the global economy are settling for cash payouts, writes Danny Schechter. August 17, 2010
• The Truth about Pat Tillman's Death
  A documentary recounts how the US government exploited the death of NFL-star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman, says Rory O'Connor. August 17, 2010

CounterPunch

• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...
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• Greg Moses : Mormons for Racial Profiling?

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• This math class may figure out Israel (Eva Bartle ...
  Gaza's Ministry of Education and Higher Education in 2009 reported that following the Israeli war on Gaza, school performance and attendance dropped due to the traumas caused by Israeli a ...
• UN official criticises Israel over flotilla probe ...
  Israel is not co-operating with the UN Human Rights Council's probe of May's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a UN official said today. Juan Carlos Monge said the fact-finding mi ...
• Why does this peace process not excite? (Rami G. ...
  It is hard to be excited or optimistic about the prospects for resumed direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations next week, because all the important factors comprising the diplomatic ...
• Not just difficult, impossible (Joharah Baker, Bi ...
  The outcome of these talks seems tragically predictable even before they begin. As long as the perimeters of the negotiations have not changed and only serve Israel's purposes, the direct ...
• 'Israel’s choice is settlements or peace' (Agence ...
  Israel must choose between "settlements or peace", Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Monday ahead of the September 2 restart of direct negotiations in Washington. "The choi ...

Water - AlterNet

• Environmentalists Get Huge Win: Controversial Coal ...
  Borneo's environment minister has rejected plans for a coal plant that would have been built at the edge of one of the world's most biodiverse marine environments.
• Two Dangerous Ingredients in Everyday Products Tha ...
  Triclosan and triclocarban are widely used in antibacterial soaps, body washes, deodorants, lip glosses, dog shampoos, shave gels and even toothpastes.
• Pittsburgh Takes a Stance Against Fracking; Who's ...
  A bill in Pittsburgh would ban corporations from drilling for natural gas. A bold move -- will it work?
• How the Pakistan Floods Could Change the War in Af ...
  The human suffering of millions in Pakistan's floods may have just begun if the country destablizes -- meaning, the U.S. could be there for a very long time.
• Sierra Club's Greenest Universities and Colleges - ...
  This year Sierra has shaken things up, shifting their priorities to give more weight to each school's energy supply.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Ali Rawaf: Media and Campaign Finance Intern at Pu ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ali studies Political Science and Int'l Studies at University of Texas at Austin.
• Federal Investigation of Texas’ Radioactive Waste ...
  NRC and EPA called upon to examine radioactive waste site and licensing process, risks of groundwater contamination and potential risks to the Ogallala Aquifer, which lies beneath eight states AUSTIN – Environmental groups today asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Environ ...
• Melissa Sanchez at Old Settlers Music Festival 200 ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Mellisa enjoys cooking in the rain
• Netroots Nation Day Dos
  Melissa Sanchez of Public Citizen Texas tells us about karaoke last night, Van Jones, and lots of good panels today. Links: Van Jones Breakfast Keynote this morning Speaking in Tongues movie site Se y’all tomorrow for our final update from Vegas. Filed under: green jobs Tagged: climate change, docum ...
• Smitty: Austin and San Antonio took different path ...
  This is Andy checking in from Vegas and Netroots Nation: sheesh, we leave Texas for a few days and the wheels start to come off the bus, don’t they?  Of course, our fearless and tireless leader, Tom “Smitty” Smith is there to handle everything, as he has done for the last 2 and a half [...]

Unexplained Mysteries

• Ralph A. Multer and the Roswell UFO
  Ralph A. Multer recalls his experiences transporting wreckage from the infamous Roswell UFO crash in 1947. Multer and two other drivers had been asked...
• Did the CIA spread LSD ?
  Recently discovered CIA documents have suggested possible LSD testing on a French town in 1951. Residents of the town had suffered from sudden and sev...
• Woman diagnosed with bananaphobia
  A 21-year-old children's worker is so scared of bananas that she has been diagnosed as suffering from bananaphobia. The fear is so great that she give...
• Microbes survive 553 days in space
  Bacteria placed outside the International Space Station was found to be still alive after 553 days in space. The discovery could help pave the way for...
• Amateur rocket to send humans in to space
  The world's first amateur rocket designed to carry humans in to space has been developed in Denmark. The project is headed by Kristian von Bengtson an...

Grassroots

• Referendum on Land Holding Used to Educate about L ...
  plebiscito_popular_logo.jpg As part of a larger campaign to support the right to land, this week Grassroots International provided a $10,000 grant to boost education and organizing around a powerful national referendum in Brazil. The referendu ...
• Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal & Progressive Or ...
  pakfloods2.jpg The recent monsoonal floods in Pakistan have devastated nearly a third of the country’s landmass – by some estimates�area the size of Italy. More than 20 million people have been directly impacted by the rising waters of the Ind ...
• Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal and Progressive ...
  pakfloods2.jpg The recent monsoonal floods in Pakistan have devastated nearly a third of the country’s landmass – by some estimates�area the size of Italy. More than 20 million people have been directly impacted by the rising waters of the Ind ...
• Reimagining Israel’s Negev
  bedouin.jpg Down south in the Negev desert, the sounds of jets fill wide-open spaces. Increasing militarization is constant�-- at least 80% of the land there is used for military training purposes, including weaponry development. The Negev als ...
• Haiti Advocacy Working Group develops key backgrou ...
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Climate

• August 25, 2010
  Biden Says Country on Track to Double Renewable Energy Capacity (Reuters) Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, Vice President Joseph Biden said on Tuesday. TVA Targets 9 Ol ...
• August 24, 2010
  Did BP Fail to Take Action on Technical Problems? (Los Angeles Times)  Federal investigators Monday suggested that BP knew of major technical problems but failed to take significant action before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20. Feinberg Criticized for Spill-Compensation Ter ...
• August 23, 2010
  Compensation Czar Takes Charge of $20 Billion BP Fund (Reuters) A $20 billion compensation fund for economic victims of the BP Gulf oil spill opens for business today amid accusations that the rules established by its administrator are unfair. 4th Round of Public Hearings on Gulf Disaster Start ...
• August 21-22, 2010
  BP Told to Submit Blowout Preventer Removal Plan (Reuters) BP will remove a failed blowout preventer from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf under watchful eyes of investigators probing the deadly April 20 explosion, the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill response said. Gov't: 23K W ...
• August 20, 2010
  Final BP Well Plug Delayed Until September (Reuters) BP likely won't put the final plug in its blown-out well until September to allow replacement of a critical piece of seabed equipment, the top U.S. oil spill official said on Thursday. Oil Plume Is Not Breaking Down Fast, Study Says (New Yor ...

GreenBiz

• How to Move Green IT From Defense to Offense
  The industry is by and large playing a defensive tactic of improving its energy efficiency, while failing to take advantage of the coming huge market opportunities like the smart grid, which use IT for green.
• Rechargeable Fabric Batteries to Charge the Army o ...
  A team working on lithium-ion battery technologies that can be poured into any shape or woven into fabrics reported progress in using a non-harmful virus to develop high-efficiency rechargeable batteries for military use.
• NetApp, As You Sow and More Lauded for Product Ste ...
  �A data storage company that takes backs and recycles its customers' old products and a reusable bag maker are among the winners of the latest California Stewardship Arrow Awards from the California Product Stewardship Council.
• Sustainable Consumption: Opportunity or Oxymoron?
  Consuming smarter goes only so far. We also have to consume less of just about everything, and that bumps up squarely against the business imperative,�which is to sell more of just about everything.
• Climate Corps 2010: When Buildings Go 'Retro'
  Buildings that have changing uses and those that weren't commissioned after construction can be secretly wasting energy. In both cases, retrocommissioning can help.

Reuters Global

• Acronym soup swamps Malaysia reform drive
  Instead of the action promised by PM Najib Razak to boost this Southeast Asian country's economy, Malaysia has seen the creation of a bewildering array of government thinktanks and confusing acronyms. The question now is whether promises will be delivered.
• Pakistan-India; a $5 million downpayment on a peac ...
  With Pakistan accepting $5 million in flood aid from India and New Delhi saying it is ready to do more, is this a downpayment on a broader peace initiative? Or another false dawn?
• India, Pakistan can’t break the ice, even in ...
  Pakistanis carry their belonging as they make their way through the floodwaters
• Did Bloomberg inspire Obama’s speech about N ...
  President Obama's support for the Cordoba House Muslim center near the site of the 9/11 attacks is consistent with his views on constitutional rights, religious freedom, diversity and outreach to Muslims.
• Helping Pakistan; not if, but how
  If there is a common thread to the relatively slow western response to one of the worst catastrophes in Pakistan’s history, it is a sense of confusion, not about whether to help, but how to help.

Booman Tribune

• Loonies Win the Night
  The Republicans continue to nominate lunatics and scoundrels, many of whom will probably become members of Congress next year because people just don't care enough to prevent it. One of my favorites is going to face Alan Grayson. Daniel Webster won the GOP nomination in Florida's Eight District. ...
• Serious Question
  It's a slow news day (until the election returns begin to flow in) and the FinnMan has been running me ragged all day so I haven't had much time to sit down and write. Now I need to do a few errands and make dinner, so it will be a while before I can get up a substantive post. Here's a question. ...
• I Agree with John Boehner
  Never thought I'd write that headline. But I agree with GOP House Majority Leader Boehner that our current Secretary of the Treasury and National Economic Council chief should be kicked to the curb. Not for the same reasons, and I doubt he would approve of the people I'd like to see run Treasury ...
• Bad Choices in Arizona
  Today is an election day in Arizona and several other states. John McCain is lucky to have a clown like J.D. Hayworth opposing him or he might actually be seeing his Senate career end today. Mark Halperin and Chris Matthews are at a loss to explain why McCain wants to continue his work in the Senat ...
• Putting Fingers in Our Ears
  One of the costs of failing to try to understand why we were attacked on 9/11 is that we still have no idea why we were attacked on 9/11. The right is now peddling a YouTube of Imam Rauf of the Cordoba House in which he makes the inflammatory charge that the United States has more Muslim blood on i ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - A ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1845 - birth of...
• Open Open Thread
  It's Open Open...
• Appeasing the Invisible Gods
  Following more bad news from the US housing market, bond yields everywhere are reaching new...
• Oh - Uh - Now offshore wind farms destroy seals!!
  Or so says the blaring headline in the Daily Hate: Wind farm clue to horrific...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 2 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1902 - birth of...

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 24
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy: Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
• Arguments against life extension
  Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
• Daddy, where does innovation come from?
  Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
• Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
  Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
• How to be a futurist
  The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...

Therapy News

• “Exclusively Women” Program Provides Much-Needed S ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary “The shortage of mental health services in Portland is well documented,” notes Mike Sherbun of Cedar Hills Hospital. Now, a new program at that hospital is offering a range of much-needed services to help one portion of the population in particular: women. Named “Exclu ...
• New Partnership in Indiana Aims To Improve Mental ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headlines Indiana’s largest community mental health agency, Madison Center, will be the location for a new initiative aimed at further understanding—and better treating—a number of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, and other conditions. Madison Center will b ...
• Kids and Lying
  By Kelly Sanders, MFT, Child & Adolescent Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile All kids lie. They start young, look innocent into your eyes and tell you the answers that you want to hear. Then it’s like a shock as a parent that their chil ...
• Filling Up that Empty Nest
  By Kelly Chicas, LPCC, NCC, CRS, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile It’s almost September- and that means it’s time for back to school. When the children return to the structure of classes, many marriages and relations ...
• Benefits of Assertive Communications
  By Irina Firstein, LCSW, Communication Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Irina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Most of us utilize three modes of relating to others: assertiveness, submissiveness and aggression. I will begin by defining them. Aggressive behavior is an exp ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Hechler speaks against mountaintop removal at Lair ...
  Student Operated Press Hechler speaks against mountaintop removal at Lair campaign rally The Daily Athenaeum Joe Manchin, held a campaign rally in front of the Mountainlair in support of his anti- mountaintop removal mining agenda. "Mountaintop mining is leveling ... Hechler Getting Younger Voter S ...
• The Advocate-Messenger - Danville Advocate
  The Advocate-Messenger Danville Advocate Case in point, mountaintop removal . How many acres of our beautiful landscape here in Kentucky has been ravaged by the greedy coal companies for profit? ...
• Franzen Frenzy: Reading Beyond The 'Freedom' Hype ...
  Franzen Frenzy: Reading Beyond The 'Freedom' Hype NPR ... in a misguided crusade to create a sanctuary for cerulean songbirds that involves cooperation with military contractors and mountaintop-removal mining. ... and more��
• A green economy will keep growing - CNN Internatio ...
  A green economy will keep growing CNN International Offshore drilling and mountain top removal provide a few thousand jobs nationwide, but, as the BP oil spill recently demonstrated, can jeopardize millions ... and more��
• Some entertainers pulling out of WEG over coal-com ...
  Some entertainers pulling out of WEG over coal-company sponsorship Lexington Herald Leader When Reel World String Band decided not to perform during the Games, banjo player Sue Massek sent a letter to the arts council attacking mountaintop removal ...

Memeorandum

• McCain defeats conservative primary challenger (Jo ...
  Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press : McCain defeats conservative primary challenger   —  PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain routed conservative challenger J.D. Hayworth on Tuesday in the Republican primary in what could be the final campaign for the former GOP presidential nominee.  —  McCain spent mor ...
• Miller holds slim lead in early Senate vote (Sean ...
  Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News : Miller holds slim lead in early Senate vote   —  Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was battling for her political life against Republican challenger Joe Miller in early primary election returns on Tuesday night.  —  Miller was leading Murkowski with nearly 52 perce ...
• GOP Maintains Edge in Midterm Voting Preferences ( ...
  Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup : GOP Maintains Edge in Midterm Voting Preferences   —  Holds 47% to 44% advantage in latest update  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup tracking of 2010 midterm congressional election voting preferences shows 47% of registered voters saying they would vote for the Republican candid ...
• Bloomberg Launches Another Impassioned Defense Of ...
  The Huffington Post : Bloomberg Launches Another Impassioned Defense Of Cordoba House   —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  In a rousing address before a predominantly Muslim audience Tuesday night, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reaffirmed his commitment to the controversial Islamic cultural cente ...
• Scott shocks McCollum in Fla. governor's race (Ale ...
  Alexander Burns / The Politico : Scott shocks McCollum in Fla. governor's race   —  Multimillionaire health care executive Rick Scott narrowly captured the GOP's nomination for governor of Florida Tuesday night, shocking both Republican and Democratic insiders who believed the free-spending newcom ...

Energy & Environment News

• Dire Predictions for Drilling Ban in Gulf Are Not ...
  The worst economic forecasts have failed to materialize as companies wait to see how long the moratorium will last before making decisions on spending cuts and layoffs.
• Ex-ConAgra Unit Settles With U.S. Over Artificial ...
  Regulators said a trader, eager to make the first trade for oil over $100 a barrel, executed a trade that did not reflect a true price.
• British Mining Company Buying Stake in Oil Busines ...
  Vedanta Resources sees the move as a way to increase domestic oil production.
• Special Report: Energy and Environment: Safety Fea ...
  Activists are seeking to halt construction of France’s latest-generation nuclear power plant, arguing that design changes have voided the plant’s building permit.
• The Gates Path to an Energy Revolution
  Bill Gates lays out a path toward a clean-energy future, with sustained money for innovation a core need.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia
  Wednesday, August 25, 2010 06:25:12 UTC Wednesday, August 25, 2010 02:25:12 PM at epicenter Depth : 173.70 km (107.93 mi)
• M 5.0, western Indian-Antarctic Ridge
  Wednesday, August 25, 2010 04:06:17 UTC Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:06:17 PM at epicenter Depth : 9.90 km (6.15 mi)
• M 5.6, Mariana Islands region
  Sunday, August 22, 2010 09:33:09 UTC Sunday, August 22, 2010 07:33:09 PM at epicenter Depth : 49.00 km (30.45 mi)
• M 5.1, Potosi, Bolivia
  Sunday, August 22, 2010 08:06:29 UTC Sunday, August 22, 2010 04:06:29 AM at epicenter Depth : 126.80 km (78.79 mi)
• M 5.2, Kyrgyzstan
  Friday, August 20, 2010 16:57:15 UTC Friday, August 20, 2010 10:57:15 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• Demystifying nuclear power
  Zhou Shirong is deputy director of nuclear safety at China’s environmental protection ministry. Here, he talks to Cao Haidong and Meng Dengke about managing construction standards – and public anxiety. This article was originally published by Southern Weekend on July 1, 2010. Southern Weekend: The ...
• Panic stations
  As China pushes ahead with its ambitious nuclear programme, public safety fears are growing. Education, open information and citizen engagement are all essential for improving trust, writes Meng Dengke. In mid -June, Hong Kong media reported that the Daya Bay nuclear-power station in Shenzhen, south ...
• Battle of the solar systems
  China is preparing for a solar-thermal revolution, but not everyone is convinced the technology – or the country – is ready. Feng Jie and Chen Zhou report. Europe’s vision of a giant solar-thermal plant in the Sahara Desert, meeting up to 15% of the continent’s electricity needs, is frequently dismi ...
• Uphill fight for Kashmir’s trees
  Amid a building boom in India’s northernmost state, corruption is hindering efforts to stop illegal timber smuggling. And, writes Jason Burke, the trade in wood is fuelled in part by government cash. High above the village of Nawroz Baba, above the shrine, even above the pastures, is the forest. It ...
• Not just a natural disaster
  The Pakistani state has failed its people, writes Kamila Shamsie. Environmentalists have long warned of the power of the illegal timber mafia and the susceptibility of deforested areas to flooding, landslides and soil erosion. First came the Taliban. Then the army. And now the floods. The people of ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Why Doesn't the Media Have the Guts to Attack Fox ...
  Fox's hatemongering against Muslims and African-Americans continues to mostly get a free pass in the media.
• Global Warming Deniers Aren't "Experts" ...
  The "debate" over global warming has never been about productive dialogue. Rather, it's an indication of our eagerness to doubt issues that threaten our very existence.
• The Profoundly Screwed-Up Beliefs That Compose Mit ...
  Mitt Romney is the most credible of all the likely Republican presidential candidates. He’s right to focus on the economy, but his specifics are loony.
• Feederism: Cramming Yourself with Food Is the Late ...
  We've all had fantasies linked to oral pleasures. Now, increasing numbers of people are making those fantasies central to their sexual experience.
• Google & Verizon's Evil Plan Is Really Bad New ...
  If we wake up one day to an Internet that has a carpool lane for the upper class, it's worth thinking about the alternatives.

Threat Level

• Facebook Lawsuit Throws the -book at Social Networ ...
  Facebook has sued a little-known website for educators called Teachbook, claiming Facebook literally owns the “book” when it comes to naming social networking sites. “Misappropriating the distinctive book portion of Facebook’s trademark, defendant has created its own competing online networking com ...
• Touchscreen E-Voting Machine Reprogrammed to Play ...
  It turns out paperless touchscreen voting machines are actually good for something after all. Two computer-security researchers recently hacked this Sequoia AVC Edge to play the classic arcade videogame Pac-Man. They picked up the machine after it was decommissioned in Virginia in a statewide purge ...
• Court: Death Threats Addressed to Corporations Are ...
  An Arizona man who plotted a massacre outside the 2008 Super Bowl had his conviction overturned Monday by a federal appeals court because his snailmailed death threats went to no specific targets. The case concerned Kurt William Havelock, who drove to the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, with a newl ...
• Researcher Arrested in India After Disclosing Prob ...
  A security researcher in India has been arrested after he refused to provide authorities with the name of a person who supplied him with an electronic voting machine that was used to discover vulnerabilities in the system. The researcher had used the machine to demonstrate how someone could hack vo ...
• Court Overturns Order Blocking Newspaper From Prin ...
  A California appeals court has overturned a Los Angeles judge’s order that prohibited the Los Angeles Times from publishing a photo of a quadruple murder defendant. “We conclude the superior court’s order precluding publication of photographs lawfully taken unconstitutionally violates the prohibitio ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Philippines probes blame for botched hijack bus re ...
  MANILA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Commanders of a botched rescue of a hijacked Philippines tourist bus have been ordered on leave and weapons from the raid tested to determine responsibility for the deaths of eight hostages, police said on Wednesday. Philippine National Police spokesman Agrimero Cruz told ...
• McCain wins Arizona primary, Meek victorious in Fl ...
  MIAMI (Reuters) - Representative Kendrick Meek won Florida's Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday and will square off against Governor Charlie Crist and conservative Republican Marco Rubio in the closely watched November 2 election.
• BHP Billiton says won't buy Potash "at any cost"
  MELBOURNE/LONDON (Reuters) - BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, tried to dampen expectations it would substantially raise its hostile $39 billion bid for Potash Corp as bumper results showed it has plenty of firepower.
• China crash kills 42 as plane overshoots runway
  * Accident happened at new airport in northeast China * Plane split apart and burst into flames; 96 on board * Brazilian manufacturer Embraer sends investigators * Henan Airlines grounds all flights for next three days (Adds further details) By Ben Blanchard and Chris Buckley BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reute ...
• Global outlook casts shadow over Fed mountain retr ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Central bankers from around the world will assess a darkening economic outlook at their annual U.S. mountain retreat this week with discussion of printing yet more money to spur growth on the agenda.

IntelNews

• Ireland not to recall passports following Mossad f ...
  By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The government of Ireland has decided against recalling millions of passports issued before 2005, following the discovery of several forged Irish passports used by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. At least seven of the Mossad … Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #417
  US Senators question Chinese telecom hardware bid. Senior Republican senators have called for an investigation on whether US national security will be compromised by the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei seeking to sell equipment to Sprint Nextel, which provides services to … Continue readin ...
• ‘Lord of War’ arms smuggler enjoys Russian protect ...
  By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The case of notorious arms smuggler Viktor Bout is well known. Born in Dushanbe, Soviet Tajikistan, in 1967, Bout served in the GRU (Soviet military intelligence) until the collapse of the USSR, at which … Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #416 (Iran edition)
  Israel not to attack Iran in 2011, say US sources. The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iranâs nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year for Iran to complete a âdashâ for a … Continue reading →
• Russia, Romania, expel diplomats in spy tit-for-ta ...
  By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The Russian and Romanian governments have expelled each otherâs diplomats in a spy scandal that made headlines in both countries last week. The spy affair began last Monday, August 16, when Russiaâs Federal Security … Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

• America's Gulf: Updating the Greatest Ever Environ ...
  America's Gulf: Updating the Greatest Ever Environmental Crime - by Stephen Lendman For months, US media reports distorted and lied about its severity, running cover for BP and the Obama administration, now practically avoiding the crisis altogether as it worsens. An August 20 Inter Press Service re ...
• War Veterans/Military Family Members Successfully ...
  KILLEEN, Texas - August 23 - Five peace activists successfully blockaded six buses carrying Fort Hood Soldiers deploying to Iraq outside Fort Hood's Clarke gate this morning at around 4 a.m. While the activists took the width of Clarke Rd. and slowed the buses to a halt, police made no arrests, but ...
• The withdrawal that isn't
  By Michael Schwartz, Socialist Worker Michael Schwartz, the author of War Without End: The Iraq War in Context and a commentator on U.S. wars and occupations for Web sites such as Huffington Post and TomDispatch, talked with Ashley Smith about the Obama administration's announcement that the withdra ...
• Unions Are WRONG To Refuse To Build The Mosque
  by Linda Milazzo Photo by Hagen for News Blaster, NY Daily News I've always believed in unions. I come from a long line of union members: steel workers, sanitation workers, office workers, police, fire, you name it. They're all in my family. My American family typifies the American working class. ...
• Despite New Mission, US troops Still in the Fight ...
  By Dan De Luce From AFP WASHINGTON — US troops will still be in combat and taking on Islamist militants in Iraq even as the American military moves to an "advise and assist" role with a smaller force, officials said Thursday. The withdrawal of the last US combat brigade on Thursday was hailed as a ...

Grist - News

• Why our railways suck (in two graphs)
  by Jonathan Hiskes. The New Jersey-New York-Philadelphia Amtrak mess that left commuters stranded this week just goes to show you that widespread passenger rails will never be a viable competitor to America's highway system. Transit just isn't as reliable. People prefer to drive. Except not. Roa ...
• Wonder why climate bills stall in the Senate? Foll ...
  by Randy Rieland. Let's review. We just lived through the worst accidental oil leak in history. And we're at the tail end of a�summer of cataclysmic weather�that top climate scientists tell us is a taste of the globally-warmed future. Yet the United States Senate failed to pass a climate bill s ...
• Gloom alert: Fossil fuels and climate change still ...
  by Randy Rieland. Oil and water don't mix. But oil, climate change, and politics? You just can't tease those three apart. The investigation into the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon well continues today with a hearing in Houston amidst a swirl of bad energy. There's sniping between Transocea ...
• Mystery island, magical bikes, and 8 other green s ...
  by Randy Rieland. What a week. While scientists testifying on Capitol Hill trashed the government's estimates on how much oil lingers in the Gulf, sound-sensitive munchers everywhere trashed the new compostable Sun Chips bag because it's louder than a New York subway train. Really . But here's s ...
• Giant underwater plume in Gulf challenges optimism
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Experts said Thursday they have mapped a 22-mile-long underwater plume of oil that spewed from BP's ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, seeming to challenge U.S. government assertions that most of the oil has disappeared. The oily underwater cloud measured two ...

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Time - Top Stories

• 50 Best Websites 2010
  From the helpful to the distracting, the big-hitters to the unknowns, this is TIME's road map to the best the Web has to offer
• Iran: How Effective Is Ahmadinejad's New Drone?
  Almost no one, it seems. Revealed to dramatic effect, the weapon may fly but it is unlikely to deliver any real strategic punch
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Washington Independent

• Rick Scott Wins Republican Nomination for Florida ...
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  Meek faces an uphill battle in the general election as polls consistently put him behind Republican candidate Marco Rubio and independent candidate Gov. Charlie Crist.
• Live Coverage of Tonight’s Florida Primary
  Two of the most negative and expensive primary battles this cycle are coming to an end tonight in Florida, and our sister site, The Florida Independent, will be covering the results live. This page will be updating throughout the night (so bookmark it!) with results and dispatches from our reporters ...
• Rick Scott Strategist Trumpets Overblown Turnout E ...
  Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott strategist Tony Fabrizio blasted out an optimistic memo to the St. Petersburg Times predicting record turnout for the former health care executive running for the Republican nomination for governor: Given that as of Saturday, August 21st nearly 5 ...
• How Should Immigration Courts Reduce Backlogs?
  Immigration courts are experiencing a massive backlog, with a 459-day average waiting time before cases are heard by a federal judge. Nearly 248,000 cases were pending by mid-June, a 33 percent increase over the number of cases pending at the end of the 2008 fiscal year, according to data from Syrac ...

Digg Green

• New microbe discovered eating oil spill in Gulf
  A newly discovered type of oil-eating microbe is suddenly flourishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists discovered the new microbe while studying the underwater dispersion of millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf following the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
• Transparency: The Most Fuel Efficient Airlines (Gr ...
  While some airlines have done experiments in running planes on biofuels, air travel normally requires an enormous output of carbon-emitting jet fuel. Various factors, like plane models, total load, and chosen route can effect one trip's fuel efficiency, but which airlines consistently manage to use ...
• Audio slideshow: 'The secret of life'
  In 1953, two Cambridge University scientists published their answer to one of the most fundamental questions of biology - how do living things reproduce themselves? In their article for the journal, Nature, James D Watson and Francis Crick described the structure of a chemical called deoxyribonuclei ...
• A Machine That Turns Plastic Back Into Oil
  Plastic causes a trifecta of problems. We're running out of places to dump our non-biodegradable plastic waste and it's clogging up our oceans. Burning plastic releases tons of CO2 into the atmosphere contributing to global warming. And to make the stuff, it soaks up 7% of our annual petroleum use, ...
• 'Virtual Shellfish' Aid In Studying Oil's Effects
  Though some of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon has now disappeared, scientists are trying to figure out what the remaining oil is doing to marine life. A damage assessment for a place the size of the Gulf is a huge and complicated job, but out of sight does not mean out of mind.

Invisible Opportunity

• The Stupids take the Prize and Scream for their ow ...
  By Les Visible All of this deadly mischief can be tracked to the bankers and corporations, whose intent is to reap as much profit as is possible by doing the worst things they can imagine, in order to also make a profit from pretending to clean up the disasters they committed in the first place. [.. ...
• Experts: Iran not so close to bomb
  Dudi Cohen The historic activation of the Iranian nuclear reactor in Bushehr on Saturday was indeed an important move forward in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, and theoretically the facility could be helpful in Tehran’s efforts to attain a nuclear weapon, but experts believe it will not be ...
• South Pacific sea levels – Best records show littl ...
  Are the small islands of the South Pacific in danger of disappearing, glug, under the waves of the rising ocean? Will thousands of poor inhabitants be forced to emigrate, as desperate refugees, to Australia and New Zealand? Has any of this got anything to do with man-made emissions of CO2? By lookin ...
• Holocaust historian death linked to Mossad
  Dariusz Ratajczak, a former professor at the University of Opole, was found dead in a car parked near a shopping center in Opole on June 11, 2010. Forensic reports indicated that the body was in the car for nearly two weeks, but was in an advanced state of decay, suggesting that it was moved to [... ...
• Hitler ‘descended from the Jews and Africans ...
  By Allan Hall Adolf Hitler is likely to have been descended from both Jews and Africans, according to DNA tests. Samples taken from relatives of the Nazi leader show that he is biologically linked to the ‘sub-human’ races he sought to exterminate. Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Verm ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
  We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
• The Creation
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
• About George Green
  Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• California's Marijuana Legalization Initiative is ...
  Ten weeks from Election Day, it’s clear how much Prop. 19 has already accomplished for the drug policy reform movement.
• Lessons Not Learned Since Tragic Drug Raid in Atla ...
  Money spent prosecuting and jailing low-level offenders is money not being spent on drug treatment or education.
• The 8 Most Absurd Excuses for Trying to Defeat Leg ...
  I've collected the eight craziest claims about a post-legalization state of California predicted by opponents of Prop 19.
• New Legislation Clarifies Confusion Around Lawful ...
  We need law enforcement to use a new approach and new set of attitudes in dealing with drug use. Aren't we all trying to be part of a thriving, healthier and fairer society?
• How Not to Stop Smoking
  New research finds suppressing thoughts of smoking just increases the likelihood you’ll light up later on.

Twilight Earth

• Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon)
  A victory for anyone who likes healthy food, soil, and water! Monsanto’s sour plans for the sweet beet were spoiled as a federal judge banned genetically modified sugar beets. This is great news and hopefully a large step forward to getting food production back on a less toxic track. Sugar beet, ...
• Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls ...
  The news that chemicals and obesity causes premature puberty in girls is the latest of thousands of red flags waving high above our food production and consumption status quo. Of course, things are changing, but are they changing fast enough? Nope. The only thing changing quickly is the level of t ...
• BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon)
  If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers… Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow all of his green cartooning at JoeMohrToons.com. Related posts:Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Healthy Food! (cartoon) If Climate Change Was ...
• If Climate Change Was a Dog (cartoon)
  We did know about climate change back in the 50’s, as evidenced by this Frank Capra Video on Global Warming. But even though it was a monster of a dog back then, it was still just a harmless little puppy. Today, well, it’s different. And I don’t know how much I trust the little man controlling [... ...
• Genetically Modified Truths (cartoon)
  The biotech and agrochemical industries are KILLING us! Well, atleast they are well aware of that and are working hard to clean up their act. Oh wait, now I’m not telling the truth… More relevant info: The Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronical ...

Inhabitat

• 9 Green Architecture Student Projects That Make th ...
  Read the rest of 9 Green Architecture Student Projects That Make the Gradehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: architecture shcool proj ...
• Olympia’s New Water Education Center Aims for LEED ...
  Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calculated that the total energy spent nationwide to supply drinking water and process waste-water releases 116 billion pounds of carbon dioxide annually — approximately the same quantity of emissions as 10 million cars. Unsurprisingly, many US ci ...
• NASA Architect’s Cricket Trailer Showcases Space-A ...
  Read the rest of NASA Architect’s Cricket Trailer Showcases Space-Age Designhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cricket trailer, eco d ...
• LabBox: The World’s Smallest Hydroponic Gardening ...
  Gardening indoors can be tricky – especially when growing plants that require carefully controlled environments with lots of light. Enter Pocket Grow’s LabBox, a high-tech planter that is being billed as the world’s smallest automatic hydroponic system on the market. This fully-contained terrarium u ...
• Studio Millegomme Upcycles Tires Into Awesome Art ...
  Studio Millegomme’s amazing art installations are yet another reason why we never “tire” of seeing recycled rubber used as a building material! The international collective of tire crafters was recently invited to create a functional on-site installation for the design biennale in Venice out of 50 t ...

Pogue's Posts

• A College Student Reviews a Smartpen
  Since students make up a critical portion of the target audience for Livescribe's new smartpen, I figured my summer intern would be the perfect person to review it.
• Three Unknown Features of the iPhone 4
  A critical mass of tricks and tips for the iPhone 4 have started to pile up. Here's a look at three cool iOS 4 features that nobody, including Apple, seems to be talking about.
• At Snopes.com, Rumors Are Held Up to the Light
  David Pogue interviews David Mikkelson of Snopes.com, where Internet veterans go to get the truth about online rumors.
• Q&A: Rumors, Cyberbullying and Anonymity
  David Pogue talks to John Palfrey, Harvard Law School professor, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and author of "Born Digital."
• Loosening the iPhone Death Grip
  Predictably, Mr. Jobs's gesture did nothing to satisfy the most vocal Apple bashers, but most reasonable people will agree that this is a decent good-faith gesture on Apple's part.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Tracking Bird Flu One Poop at a Time
  Duck and goose droppings, the bane of golfers and park visitors, may help scientists track the spread of bird flu — with olfactory assistance from properly trained animals. Scientists have trained mice to identify the poop of ducks infected with avian influenza, chemical ecologist Bruce Kimball rep ...
• Oil-Gobbling Bug Discovery Raises Gulf Hopes — For ...
  A week after a high-profile paper suggested that the vast Deepwater Horizon oil plume could linger for months, another study claims bacteria are breaking the oil down quickly, and that the plume is likely gone. The conflict between the results are striking. Other researchers warn that there’s just ...
• Zapping Nerves Simulates Space Flight Effects
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience594167212001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); A new device simulates the dizzying experience of returning from space by zapping pilots with electrical current behind the ears. “You can train for spaceflight tasks unde ...
• How To Raise A Superstar
  The 10,000 hour rule has become a cliche. This is the idea, first espoused by K. Anders Ericsson, a pyschologist at Florida State University, that it takes about 10,000 hours of practice before any individual can become an expert. The corollary of this rule is that that differences in talent reflect ...
• Pakistan’s Climate Change Floods, Seen From Above
  A series of satellite photographs conveys the epic scale of the floods sweeping through Pakistan, leaving millions homeless and the world aghast at an extreme weather disaster that experts consider the new normal. Above at left is the central Pakistan city of Hyderabad on July 31. At right is the c ...

The Progressive Realist

• Build the Mosque; Help Defeat Al Qaeda
  This post is by Matthew Alexander and originally appeared on the Huffington Post . read more
• Bringing the Diplomacy of “Dignity Promotion” to t ...
  In a March 2008 article in the American Prospect , ]the journalist Spencer Ackerman wrote the first serious attempt to understand the organizing principals of then-candidate Obama’s foreign policy vision. Ackerman discovered that should Obama assume the presidency, " the Obama doctrine ” as he put ...
• Pakistan Flooding of Biblical Proportions
  A failed nuclear weapons state of 180 million people, flooded from north to south over 600 miles in an area the size of Florida and an ongoing monsoon deluge that submerged thousands of villages, stranded 20 million and left 4.5 million unable to feed themselves, faced with a cholera epidemic, riots ...
• The Privilege of Criticizing US Foreign Policy
  Yesterday, groping for any evidence of extremism on the part of the Imam behind the Park 51 project, conservatives deliberately distorted a speech Faisal Abdul Rauf had given in 2005 regarding the effect of U.S. foreign policy on sparking hostility in the Muslim world. It's very clear what Rauf is s ...
• New Brookings Policy Brief on Radicalization of Is ...
  I have a new Brookings policy brief suggestively titled "The Islamist Response to Repression: Are Mainstream Islamist Groups Radicalizing?" You can read it here ( PDF ). While the Obama administration tries to resolve conflicts and crises in Iran, Palestine, and Iraq, there are some troubling develo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: All I Know is that I Don't Know N ...
  I've suggested before that the most noteworthy impact of new media won't be on journalism but on academia, and a great story in The New York Times proves the point. It details an effort to reform publishing in academic journals from the peer-review model to one in which submissions are picked apart ...
• On Clarity and the Federal Reserve.
  There's been plenty of talk about Jon Hilsenrath's behind-the-scenes look at the Fed's most recent board meeting . This much detail on a Fed debate is something of a rarity, suggesting enough discontent among participants that people felt it important to share the discussion with the broader public. ...
• An Ebonics Primer.
  To chime in on Jamelle 's post about the DEA's effort to hire Ebonics speakers, I'd like to point out that African American Vernacular English (AAVE) -- like all languages and dialects -- doesn't just refer to vocabulary differences. For some background: Linguistic differences tend to arise when gro ...
• Bloggers, Taxes, and City Budgets.
  You may have heard about this crazy story from Philadelphia, in which the city is sending letters to bloggers, demanding that they pay a $300 "business privilege tax" because of their income from blogging. This rang a chord with me, because a few years ago, long after I had moved to D.C., I got a le ...
• The Little Picture: Hearts and Minds.
  (Flickr/ISAF) U.S. Army 1st Lt. Alexander Johnson, an incoming platoon leader with Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, takes notes while visiting with Afghan farmers and community leaders near Combat Outpost Monti, Afghanistan.

Buzzflash

• I'm Getting Tired of the Whole "Mosque at Ground Z ...
  MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH I'm getting tired of the whole "mosque at Ground Zero" story. It's not a mosque and it's not at Ground Zero. And it shouldn't be political because the First Amendment gives religious freedom to all religions and no politician can do anything about it. Most American Musl ...
• Greg Palast on THE Mosque for BuzzFlash: Why Not B ...
  GREG PALAST FOR BUZZFLASH BuzzFlash just got off the phone with Greg Palast who wanted to make sure that BuzzFlash got his latest -- and perhaps most droll -- piece posted first (in addition to his site). In it Greg offers his irreverent reflections on THE Mosque controversy (it's really a community ...
• The Republicans are Ruining This Country With Thei ...
  BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i146f59304cd52ab8346fe89a58da095b Would that conservatives be as diligent about the truth, as they are about the "F" word, or "wardrobe malfuntions", would that they insist on the truth, the whole truth, and no ...
• A Few Thoughts About The Mosque Madness
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Right wingers love this part of New York And want it to remain as locals intended it But they don’t care for it enough to properly Pay the first responders who defended it. � And this “hallowed ground” as of this writing Has many bars and places to buy Weejuns, Strip clubs, ...
• Our Corrupting Campaign Process
  Body There is a popular notion that rich office-seekers are free of the corrupting influences that burden candidates of lesser means. But self-funding hasn’t proven to be a guarantee of righteousness. Rather, the need to spend hugely on campaigns can grind principles to dust and corru ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Fact-free accusations about WikiLeaks
  (updated below - Update II) I realize that it shouldn't, but it nonetheless does still amaze me when I listen to professional political commentators make factual assertions without having the slightest idea or concern for whether they're actually true.��The�Heritage Foundation's Conn Ca ...
• The "mosque" debate is not a "distraction"
  (updated below - Update II) Opponents of the Park51 Islamic community center held a rally yesterday in Lower Manhattan, and a 4-minute video, posted below, reveals the true sentiments behind this campaign.  It has little to do with The Hallowed Ground of the World Trade Center -- that's ...
• Charges against Julian Assange withdrawn, unfounde ...
  Every major media outlet blared overnight headlines that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, had been criminally charged with rape and molestation in Sweden and arrested in abstentia.� This morning, however, we find this : Sweden Rescinds Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder ...
• Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact docum ...
  (updated below - Update II - Update III) When the controversy first arose over the lack of redactions in the war documents released by WikiLeaks, the website insisted that, using the New York�Times as an intermediary, it had asked the�Obama administration for help in removing names of A ...
• Jeffrey Goldberg's fabrication on NPR
  (updated below � Update II) This is really quite strange.� Yesterday, my inbox began filling up with email telling me that Jeffrey Goldberg had gone on NPR�and, when asked about my critiques of his Atlantic article on bombing Iran, claimed I had "retracted" part of what I�had written. � ...

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Sciencebase science news links for August 16th thr ...
  These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: That underwater hydrocarbon plume is still there – Things in the Gulf of Mexico may not be cleaning themselves up quite as fast as some had claimed and many had hoped. Surprise, surprise Paracetamol use and risk of asthma in teen ...
• What’s the point of the semantic web?
  I was scanning journal tables of contents as usual this week and it occurred to me that there must be a better way to find relevant and timely research information that would be of interest to Sciencebase readers…and, of course, out pops the following title: Technically approaching the semantic web ...
• Cleaning up emissions
  Emissions trading is an economic workaround, a fudge if you will, to reducing one’s pollution levels by buying off the emissions credits of others who are polluting less. Emissions trading (also known as cap and trade) is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incent ...
• Drug testing, solar fullerenes, chemicalization
  These are my recent science picks, including my latest contributions to spectroscopyNOW.com Drug testing – A simple analytical approach to identifying drugs of abuse would be a boon to forensic scientists and law enforcement agencies. A collaboration between researchers in the US and Europe demonstr ...
• Social impact of science
  The social impact of science and knowledge evolution – New research that analyses 500 years of scientific history comes to the perhaps obvious conclusion that those nations that support science and the evolution of knowledge through education, infrastructure and funding, produce stronger societies t ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Watchdogs to WHCA: Reconsider Fox News' Front-Row ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 Media Matters for America Today, following reports that News Corp. donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, Media Matters for America joined Public Campaign and the Center for Media and Democracy in issuing a letter to the White House Corres ...
• OpenSecrets.org Launches 'Fueling Washington' Seri ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 Center for Responsive Politics Climate change legislation. Energy policy. The worst oil spill in American history. read more
• Amnesty International Warns China that Death Penal ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Amnesty International warned today that proposed reforms of China's application of the death penalty may not result in significantly fewer executions. "Although we would welcome any reform that would in practice decrease executions in ...
• New Report Highlights Challenges Facing Grand Cany ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) This week, as the National Park Service commemorates its 94th anniversary, the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) today released a comprehensive report that highlights the opportunities and challenges ...
• War Veterans/Military Family Members Successfully ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 War Veterans/Military Family Members Five peace activists successfully blockaded six buses carrying Fort Hood Soldiers deploying to Iraq outside Fort Hood's Clarke gate this morning at around 4 a.m. While the activists took the width of Clarke Rd. and slowed ...

Common Dreams-Views

• The Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Teresa Lewis
  by Alex Hannaford On 23 September, 40-year-old Teresa Lewis will become the first woman to be executed in the state of Virginia for almost a century. She'll also be the first woman put to death in the US since 2005. Considering that, in the intervening five years, around 220 men will have been e ...
• Public Libraries: Enablers of Americans' Dreams
  by Neal Peirce America's public libraries, fast turning themselves into "one-stop shops" for digital job searches, appear to be staging one of their great historic transformations. read more
• Israeli Soldiers Sell Gaza Flotilla Passengers’ Co ...
  by Ann Wright Despite appeals from 750 passengers on the Gaza flotilla to their governments to pressure the Israeli government to protect and return their personal belongings that were taken by Israeli commandos on May 31, 2010, when they forcefully boarded the six ships of the flotilla, the Isr ...
• It's No Wonder the Haitians Wanted Wyclef Jean
  by Patricia Williams Wyclef Jean has been disqualified from running for the presidency of Haiti because he has not been a resident for at least the last five years. While Jean respected the decision as a legal matter, his disqualification highlights the longer-term tragedies that have made livin ...
• Juvenile Justice Military Style
  by Christopher Brauchli O neglectful nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? — Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

• The Amazing Disappearing Afghan Security Forces
  By Steve Hynd Afghan security forces are disappearing almost as fast as they can be recruited and trained , but like King Canute in reverse the US general in charge, Bill Caldwell, says everything will turn out alright. The American commander in charge of building up Afghanistan ’s security fo ...
• Our Sometime-Allies In Pakistan, Part The Umptieth
  By Steve Hynd Late yesterday, both the Washington Post and the New York Times dropped articles casting grave doubts on the zeal of America's "indispensible ally" in the War on Terror. In the Washington Post, the new Afghan national security advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta writes that "Pakistan is the A ...
• Book Review – The Transformation of War – Martin V ...
  By BJ Bjornson A few years ago, the blogger Fabius Maximus wrote that the secret to accurately predicting the trends of the Iraq War was to : 1. Carefully read Martin van Creveld’s book The Transformation of War (1991) . 2. Each week read the Sunday newspaper, or one of the major weekly mag ...
• Pentagon Bets $1.3 Billion On No Real 2011 Afghan ...
  By Steve Hynd When discussing the gap between rhetoric and reality in politics, it's always worth remembering that "policy is what gets funded". Walter Pincus in the WaPo brings news of the current true direction of policy on Afghanistan. Three $100 million air base expansions in southern and northe ...
• Petraeus’ Oily Spin about Progress in Afghanistan
  By Derick Crowe With General Petraeus' stop on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric now halfway over, it's worth taking a moment to unpack the unchallenged, false assertions and implications he's piled up thus far on his media tour. We decided to look into the claims he made about "oil spots" ...

Water Wars

• Water Wars
  Georgia governor asks Alabama and Florida for new round of water talks.
• Protecting the Valley�s precious resource
  CLARKSVILLE, Va. A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
• Perdue asks for more talks in water wars
  ATLANTA (AP) Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has asked his counterparts in Alabama and Florida for more talks meant to end a long-running dispute over water usage.
• Protecting the Valley�s precious resource
  CLARKSVILLE, Va. A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
• Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is o ...
  Patagonia's future is uncertain. Will it be the ultimate gated condo for the globe's ultra-wealthy, a granary for those lucky enough to escape the north's disasters or a Pandora's box of natural treasures that will unleash the next world wars?

WordPress | Economics

• Oil price drops on recovery fears
  The price of oil has dropped to below $72 a barrel, its lowest level in more than two months, on ren
• Indenturing students
  It’s bad enough that many college students graduate with thousands of dollars of debt, and the
• Ireland stung by S&P cut
  DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland's government faced mounting pressure on Wednesday to draw a li
• Quote of the Day - the DNC on McCain's win in Ariz ...
  “Today, the Republican party of Arizona nominated for Senate JD Hayworth in the shell of a politicia
• Kocherlakota: There Is Just Nothing We Can Do
  Paul Krugman is too kind to his intellectual opponents. Yes, I wrote that. Here’s what Kocherlakota

Electronic Intifada

• Global boycott movement claims victories, arrests
  Palestinians and solidarity activists claimed a major victory as the Norwegian government divested from two Israeli companies involved in settlement construction. Meanwhile ...
• Norwegian gov't pension fund excludes more Israeli ...
  The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) has divested from two Israeli companies, Africa Israel Investments and Danya Cebus, over their involvement in constructi ...
• "Like living in a big factory" in Gaza
  "Uff, uff, uff, you can never get time to rest or sleep quietly and you can't even work. Wherever you are, you hear sound of power generators which makes it seem we are all living ...
• From isolation to disability union leadership
  Hamdan Jewei is a 26-year-old Palestinian living with a physical disability in the al-Doha village near the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Jody McIntyre spoke with Je ...
• After long struggle, village on the grid
  The West Bank village of al-Tuwani, after nine years of actively fighting and lobbying, has been connected to the Palestinian electrical grid. The victory came after nearly a decad ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Day of US exit inspires Taliban to go further
  According to an outgoing military official in the US, the proposed withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan has given the Taliban a morale boost.
• Taliban rejects Petraeus' claims of rev ...
  The Taliban has rejected commander of the NATO and US forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus'remarks that the allied forces have reversed the progress of the extremists in the war ravaged country.
• Record number of women to stand in Afghan parliame ...
  A record number of female candidates will stand in Afghanistan's parliament elections next month, regardless of the everyday prejudice and death threats from the Taliban.
• US Gen. warns Obama's Afghan deadline giving ...
  General James Conway, head of the US Marine Corps has said that President Barack Obama's July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan is giving the Taliban "sustenance", and that the U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan will have to stay in place for several more years.
• Qaeda shifting base to 'safe urban haven&#039 ...
  With an aim to shield itself from the US drone led onslaught, the Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are slowly shifting their base from Pakistan's rugged tribal regions to more urban areas like Karachi, with reports revealing that many members of the Afghan Taliban's Quetta Shura (union council) have shifted ...

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 24
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy: Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
• Arguments against life extension
  Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
• Daddy, where does innovation come from?
  Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
• Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
  Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
• How to be a futurist
  The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
  �

on Government Oversight

• Morning Smoke: White House Considering Ambitious C ...
  Push and Pull by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] Fighter spending gone bezerk? by Stephen Trimble [The DEW Line] Meeting 2 [BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission] How the Minerals Management Service's partnership with industry led to failure...
• BLM Manager Ethics Swung Below Par
  When former Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field manager Steve Henke was hired as the new president of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association (NMOGA), he was selected as an "ideal choice" because of how well he worked with...
• Revolving Door Concerns Overblown?
  Are POGO's concerns about the revolving door between the offshore drilling industry and its government regulators overblown? Eric Wang, a political law attorney who penned a recent op-ed in Roll Call, thinks the answer is yes. Wang is worried that...
• Morning Smoke: Fed Loses Appeal to Keep Bailout Do ...
  Fed Loses Bid for Review of Bailout Disclosure Ruling by Bob Ivry [Bloomberg] Key Federal Regulator Took Gifts From Oil Company, Misused Travel Funds, Investigation Shows by Susan Montoya Bryan [The Huffington Post] BP audit revealed problems with Deepwater Horizon...
• No One Paying Attention to 27,000 Abandoned Oil Ri ...
  A July AP investigation revealed that there are over 27,000 abandoned oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, and that no one is monitoring them. One of these wells was abandoned in 1940, before many of the current...

Digital Journal

• Travel Destinations: Banff National Park
  The area of Banff National Park encompasses approximately 2,564 square miles featuring not only incredibly rustic views but glaciers, ice fields, dense forests and Lake Louise, plus an amazing and diverse wildlife population.
• B.C.'s HST Conflict Draws the Lines Between Busine ...
  B.C.'s Anti HST petition, recently in the courts, attempting to force Elections B.C. to pass it on to the legislature, was also disputing a suit by Business interests that the Petition is not constitutional. The battle lines between classes is drawn.
• Toronto meeting discusses why electric trains are ...
  On Tuesday evening the Condo Owners Association held a meeting "The Air We Breath" at Harbourfront Community Centre in Toronto. The issue at hand was diesel trains should be replaced by electric trains.
• Former Cold War weapons expert speaks out about Wi ...
  Barrie Trower, a scientist and former weapons expert is speaking out about the use of wireless Internet in schools, saying they could cause birth defects for multiple generations.
• Actor Martin Short's wife, Nancy Dolman has died
  Nancy Dolman, wife of actor Martin Short, has died at the age of 58 from natural causes. Dolman, a former actress had been battling cancer.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• San Diego Will Help the Homeless, Whether They Lik ...
  San Diego has a new plan to end homelessness and save money at the same time, whether the city's homeless like it or not. The city is partnering with the United Way in Project 25 , a program that aims to get 25 specific chronically homeless people off the streets. How are these people chosen? They a ...
• The End of Homelessness, in a Snap(shot)
  Start snapping — the National Alliance to End Homelessness' first ever photo contest is going on now. You've got until Sept. 17 to submit the winning image. For inspiration, check out the entries they've received so far. Here's the prompt: What does ending homelessness look like to you? How can you ...
• Where Do Homeless Activists Go From Here?
  I was recently talking with a couple of friends about various direct actions that we've been involved in over the past several years to fight for everything from shelter and affordable housing to human rights. They included efforts to keep our Franklin School Shelter open , a trip to the U.S. Social ...
• Pinellas County, Florida Has Figured it Out. Why C ...
  The sprawling complex known as Pinellas Hope in Pinellas County, Florida is one tent city that cops won't be destroying . The three-year-old encampment covers 13 acres, houses nearly 300 homeless residents and provides, for those who want it, a way out of homelessness. The rules are simple: no alcoh ...
• How the Homeless Services Sector Fails the Short-T ...
  Homeless support services are being revealed as incompetent when it comes to housing the newly- houseless . People who don't have complex long-term needs and could bypass homelessness completely (if not for eviction, foreclosure or the lack of affordable housing) are being let down by a system desig ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Petraeus tightens rules of engagement
  U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the recently appointed commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has reportedly added further restrictions to the “rules of engagement” that govern the use of force by most international forces in Afghanistan (Jason Motlagh, “Petraeus Toughens Afghan Rules of Engage ...
• Canadians still want out of Afghanistan
  Almost 80 percent of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011, as currently scheduled, reports a recent Ipsos-Reid poll (Carmen Chai, âCanadians want to end Afghan mission by 2011, poll shows,â Postmedia News, 5 August 2010): “These numbers are very indicative of a ...
• Ex-Pakistani spy chief says Afghanistan war cannot ...
  A former head of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, has stated that the conflict in Afghanistan cannot be won. Gul, whose agency worked closely with the Taliban prior to the U.S. invasion and continues to maintain ties with the organization, argued in an interview with CNN that the U.S. pre ...
• BATTLE FOR KANDAHAR IS ON - Real News Network
  In Afghanistan, the battle for Kandahar is on. That's receiving strangely little attention in the American media—quite low-key if you compare it to other major American campaigns in Afghanistan. Joining us from England, from Essex, is Muhammad Junaid, who's a research scholar studying the Pashtun na ...
• Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continues in the Hill Tim ...
  The Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continued this week, targeting political circles in Ottawa by running a second ad in the Hill Times. The ad calls on Prime Minister Harper to "Call off the attack on Kandahar," an Afghanistan military offensive expected at the end of the summer.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-24-10
  Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Support Kevin! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevinâs FREE Podcast Follow Kevin on Twitter Become Kevinâs Friend on Facebook Kevin’s Film Club Kevin’s Book Club Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show to your iPod, mp3 player, or PC throu ...
• FDA Exploits Egg Recall To Push Sterilization Agen ...
  August 23rd, 2010 Natural News By: Mike Adams It’s always amusing to see how quickly consumers can be worked up into a false fear frenzy by health authorities. We saw it last year w ith the overhyped H1N1 swine flu scare which was fanned into a flaming fear fest by WHO advisors on the take from [ ...
• Pregnant Women Should Avoid Diet Soda
  August 23rd, 2010 Telegraph By: Rebecca Smith Research carried out on almost 60,000 pregnant women in Denmark found that those who drank artificially sweetened soft drinks, whether fizzy or still, were more likely to give birth early. It was found that those who drank one serving per day ...
• Green Leafy Vegetables Reduce Risk Of Diabetes
  August 23rd, 2010 BBC News By: Emma Wilkinson In an analysis of six studies into fruit and vegetable intake, only food including spinach and cabbage was found to have a significant positive effect. A portion and a half a day was found to cut type 2 diabetes risk by 14%, the British Medical Journa ...
• Zinc Helps Prevent Pneumonia In The Elderly
  August 23rd, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff A new report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found that zinc plays a very important role in health maintenance. In a study of over 600 seniors from 33 different nursing homes in the Boston area, researchers found that sen ...

Pambazuka News

• Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
  As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...
• Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
  Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
• African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
  The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
• USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
  A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
• Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
  Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...

War in Context

• Liberal defenders of “mosque” get it wrong
  Aisha Ghani points out that much of the liberal defense of Park51 requires that the center be shown as presenting a sanitized form of Islam. t is clear that the kindergarten logic of “hear no evil, see no evil” is being utilized in order to sway public opinion in favor of the Center, but while the ...
• When misanthropy and philanthropy go hand in hand
  In a society that trumpets its faith in equal opportunity, freedom and the power of the people — government of the people, by the people and for the people, and all that — it’s ironic that again and again, we discover that some of the most powerful people in America are men (invariably men) who [... ...
• Tony Karon: the bomb-Iran debate from hell
  Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com For�Star Trek�fans, the news is grim.� Some set of maniacs on planet Earth is ready to take all the pleasure out of that low-budget TV show and its ensuing set of big-budget movies.� They are actually planning someday to manufacture�phasers, ones large e ...
• Iran enhances its capacity to shut down the global ...
  The lesson of the famous Millennium 2002 Challenge was that a cumbersome military machine that over-invests in high tech weaponry is vulnerable to swarming attacks. In the $250 million war game such an attack resulted in most of the US fleet being sunk within hours. With the development of the F-35 ...
• The perception-management trap: confusing appearan ...
  The charismatic American Muslim cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, who now lives in hiding in Yemen and is a target for assassination by the CIA, has predicted: “The West will eventually turn against its Muslim citizens!” His prediction appears to be coming true. In the current climate of escalating rhetori ...

Watts Up With That?

• Read this about Mars, pass it on, stop the hoax
  I get questions about Mars every summer, and they are always related to this same silly chain email. So this year, I felt that being proactive by placing a story on WUWT might help a bit.  I had to chuckle … Continue reading →
• Surfacetemperatures.org
  Readers may recall some months ago that the Met Office planned to “do over” the surface temperature data sets: Met office pushes a surface temperature data âdo overâ The effort has started, and a website has been setup at http://www.surfacetemperatures.org They … Continue reading →
• Climate Craziness of the Week: Study shows carnivo ...
  Any number of factors 50 million years ago could cause an animal to change, but surely CO2 must be the culprit according to these folks. They don’t even have a picture of the darn thing I can find. But read … Continue reading →
• Danielle a Hurricane again
  But just barely…see Danielle in lower right of image Latest news: WTNT31 KNHC 250256 TCPAT1 BULLETIN HURRICANE DANIELLE ADVISORY NUMBER  14 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL     AL062010 1100 PM AST TUE AUG 24 2010 …DANIELLE A HURRICANE AGAIN… SUMMARY … Continue reading →
• The biggest environmental scandal in history
  A UN board could rein in $2.7 billion carbon market to prevent the double dipping of CFC manufacturing incentives and carbon credit sales, as discovered to be happening in China. Guest post by Ric Werme Excerpts from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100821/ap_on_bi_ge/un_un_carbon_cutting_scheme# repor ...

Dandelion Salad

• Ramadan Force-Feeding, and Renewed Secrecy Surroun ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 25 August, 2010 In a disturbing report in the Miami Herald, the ever-vigilant Carol Rosenberg reports that an unknown number of hunger strikers at Guantánamo are being force-fed between dusk and dawn — a mixture of cruelty ...
• END:CIV: F*ck Patience
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ stimulator | August 23, 2010 submedia.tv The final piece from END:CIV is both a reality check and a call to arms. Can we really expect the power structures to change their destructive ways by asking nicely? Do we have unlimited time to stop the destruction of the ...
• Webster Tarpley: How the Failed Attack on the Euro ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ With Webster Tarpley Bonnie Faulkner www.kpfa.org Guns and Butter Aug.18, 2010 Economic depression increasing the likelihood of war; an attack on Iran would increase the price of oil and thereby increase demand for dollars; strong opposition from other countries ...
• Law of Value 5: Contradiction by Brendan M. Cooney
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ brendanmcooney | August 20, 2010 This antagonism between the use value and exchange value of labor power expresses a social antagonism between capitalists and workers. Capitalists and workers have opposing interests. Workers want their means of subsistence: hous ...
• Declassified Senate Investigation Files Reveal Cla ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ PRNewswire-USNewswire WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 Declassified files from a Senate investigation into Israeli-funded covert public relations and lobbying activity in the United States were released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on July 23r ...

Your New Reality

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  Murdoch Newspaper Proudly Endorses Australian Coup Like no other media outlet in his worldwide empire, Rupert Murdoch's The Australian national broadsheet newspaper is the voice of Rupert Murdoch. He's lost tens of millions on The Australian over the years, but Murdoch keeps the newspaper going bec ...
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  "We Cannot Allow The Corporate Takeover Of Our Democracy" 1961 : 2010 : .
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  Oh yes, this is cynical, and even bitter, but it's also an excellent and short expose of the formula so many, many Hollywood films put into the market every year. In Australia, the pressure is on producers, screenwriters and directors to turn out pap exactly like this, in the belief that the only wa ...
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  Okay, Here We Go Just launched the YouTube channel for FTW : The Movie In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an "unexpected visit ...
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  "Mommy! Get The Oil Off!" By Darryl Mason Fucking hell. Thousands of Americans are swimming around in this toxic shit : Morons like this guy below are telling Americans it's okay to swim, and to take their children swimming, and for people from other states to come and swim in this oily stick ...

Wired - Science

• Tracking Bird Flu One Poop at a Time
  Duck and goose droppings, the bane of golfers and park visitors, may help scientists track the spread of bird flu — with olfactory assistance from properly trained animals. Scientists have trained mice to identify the poop of ducks infected with avian influenza, chemical ecologist Bruce Kimball rep ...
• Oil-Gobbling Bug Discovery Raises Gulf Hopes — For ...
  A week after a high-profile paper suggested that the vast Deepwater Horizon oil plume could linger for months, another study claims bacteria are breaking the oil down quickly, and that the plume is likely gone. The conflict between the results are striking. Other researchers warn that there’s just ...
• Zapping Nerves Simulates Space Flight Effects
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience594167212001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); A new device simulates the dizzying experience of returning from space by zapping pilots with electrical current behind the ears. “You can train for spaceflight tasks unde ...
• How To Raise A Superstar
  The 10,000 hour rule has become a cliche. This is the idea, first espoused by K. Anders Ericsson, a pyschologist at Florida State University, that it takes about 10,000 hours of practice before any individual can become an expert. The corollary of this rule is that that differences in talent reflect ...
• Pakistan’s Climate Change Floods, Seen From Above
  A series of satellite photographs conveys the epic scale of the floods sweeping through Pakistan, leaving millions homeless and the world aghast at an extreme weather disaster that experts consider the new normal. Above at left is the central Pakistan city of Hyderabad on July 31. At right is the c ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah Cleared of Stone-Thro ...
  Non-violent protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rhamah from Bil'in was convicted of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations today, after an eight months long military trial, during which he was... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Vacationing Netanyahu can’t find time to meet IAEA ...
  Netanyahu's decision to cancel his meeting with Amano raised eyebrows on Monday, particularly given the premier's fixation on Iran's nuclear program. The prime minister and his aides have also... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Israel tells schools not to teach Nakba
  Government officials warned Israeli teachers last week not to cooperate with Zochrot, a civic group that seeks to educate Israelis about how the Palestinians view the loss of their homeland and the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Jonathan Cook: Israelis risk jail to smuggle Pales ...
  Israeli anti-Occupation activist: “We want to overturn this immoral law that gives rights to Jews to move freely around while keeping Palestinians imprisoned in their towns and villages,” referring... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Ben White: 1948 and Israel’s deceptive bargaining ...
  The refrain from Israeli politicians and the country’s allies and apologists is familiar: There can be no peace deal until the Palestinians "recognize" Israel as "a Jewish state." While this can... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• BrahMos missile maker happy with Russian Glonass r ...
  BrahMos Aerospace Ltd., a Russian-Indian joint venture manufacturing supersonic cruise missiles, is successfully using Russian-built Glonass receivers for aiming and target acquisition, CEO Sivathanu Pillai said on Wednesday.
• Regional security organization's drills in Russia ...
  Law enforcement agencies and special services of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states begin on Wednesday an active stage of antiterrorism drills.
• Largest airborne military exercises since Sov.Unio ...
• International coast guard drills to be held in Sea ...
  Russian, Chinese and South Korean coast guards will hold joint anti-piracy and anti-terrorism drills in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday, a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) border guard spokeswoman has said.
• Russian military chief to visit Poland
  Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, will arrive in Poland on two-day working visit on Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.

NewsWise

• Researchers Develop New Laboratory Cell Lines to S ...
  To their deep dismay, researchers at Mayo Clinic discovered several years ago that laboratory samples of anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) they were using to help them find new treatments for this lethal disease were probably some other kind of cancer.
• Biosensors-On-Four-Feet Detect Animals Infected wi ...
  Blood hounds may soon have a new partner ― disease detector dogs ― thanks to an unusual experiment in which scientists trained mice to identify feces of ducks infected with bird flu. Reported at the American Chemical Society's 240th National Meeting, the study may pave the way for development of bio ...
• Whale Sharks May Produce Many Litters from One Mat ...
  University of Illinois at Chicago biologist Jennifer Schmidt analyzed genetic information from preserved whale shark embryos taken from a female caught off the coast of Taiwan 15 years ago. She found all offspring to have the same father -- an unusual reproduction characteristic for sharks. Schmidt ...
• Half-a-Loaf Method Can Improve Magnetic Memories
  Chinese scientists have shown that magnetic memory, logic and sensor cells can be made faster and more energy efficient by using an electric, not magnetic, field to flip the magnetization of the sensing layer only about halfway, rather than completely to the opposite direction -- as described in the ...
• Glorious Gadolinium Gives Flash Memory a Future
  Future flash memory could be faster and store more data without changing its basic design by using a clever nanocrystal material proposed by scientists at Taiwan's Chang Gung University, who describe a new logical element made with the rare earth material gadolinium in the journal Applied Physics Le ...

Natural Health News

• Evidence Links Pesticides to Hyperactivity
  A growing body of evidence suggests that organophosphate pesticides are a prime cause of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. The pesticides are designed to attack the nervous systems of insects, so many experts believe it is not surprising that they also attack the nervous systems of ...
• Overweight American Children Becoming Fatter
  Overweight American children and adolescents have become fatter over the last decade. Researchers examined shifts over time, and found U.S. children and adolescents had significantly increased body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and triceps skinfold thickness (TST). The increases were m ...
• Headache Relief: 6 Tricks to Ease the Pain
  U.S. News & World Report offers a few practical methods for headache relief: Exercising more . Thirty minutes of walking, biking, or other physical activity at least three times weekly is good for managing headaches. Losing weight . A 2006 found that about 4 percent of healthy-weight participants ...
• The Rare Abilities of Patrick Henry Hughes
  Musician Patrick Hughes doesn’t have disabilities -- he has abilities.
• Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Ar ...
  Ben & Jerry's gets all their milk from dairies that have pledged not to inject their cows with the Monsanto-developed genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH). Why, then, can't Haagen Dazs, Breyers and Baskin-Robbins do the same? The three ice cream continue to use milk from cows inject ...

Antemedius

• Waterboarding and Rendition? Old Hat for CIA Glob ...
  Shock resounded through America when it was learned that waterboarding and rendition were among the international crimes being conducted on the pretext of fighting the war on terror. The 9/11 tragedies had been used in addition to generating the Iraq War to justify virtually any action, no matter ho ...
• The Canary In The Coal Mine: Climate Change in Tim ...
  " Ninety five percent of the glaciers in the world are retreating or shrinking... there is no scientific dispute about that " Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey , a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of ...
• Giant Ice Block Baffles Scientists
  A huge chunk of ice has broken off a glacier bordering Greenland in what scientists are calling the biggest event in the Arctic in nearly half a century. The chunk is now headed for the Nares Strait, the shipping waterway between Greenland and Canada, where it could fuse to nearby land. While thou ...
• Minority Leader McConnell, Can We Talk?
  Minority Lead McConnell, can we talk a minute? You are an educated man, so it is probably pretty hard to say some of things you say when defending the tax policies of the Bush Administration and arguing for their continuation. Perhaps your time in Washington has taught you the skill of being able to ...
• Climate Change Effects Hugely Unequal Globally
  "Climate Change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century." On May 16, 2009 a collaboration between the British medical journal The Lancet and University College London released the first UCL Lancet Commission report, assessing the impact of global warming on global health, and on pop ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• Upcoming BIICL Investment Treaty Forum
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I wanted to flag for interested readers an upcoming event at the British Institute of International & Comparative Law (BIICL). On September 10, BIICL will host its Fifteenth Investment Treaty Forum, with a focus on recent developments in international arbitration ...
• Second Circuit Gives Successor States a Blank Slat ...
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Last month the Second Circuit issued a remarkable ruling that threatens to upend the longstanding rule of successor state liability for the credit obligations of predecessor states. It did so by ruling that the automatic assumption of liability of sovereign debt o ...
• The Multilateralist’s Persuasive Defense of the IC ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku In the interests of being fair and balanced (as always!), I thought I would post on this good response by David Bosco to Jeremy Rabkin’s recent essay on the International Criminal Court in The Weekly Standard (which I discussed here).  Although I am not totally convinc ...
• Can the U.S. Prosecute Wikileaks’ Founder? Sure, I ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The WSJ has an article on the U.S. Defense Department’s push for a criminal prosecution of Wikileaks for releasing U.S. government documents on the Afghanistan war. Several officials said the Defense and Justice departments were now exploring legal options for prosecuti ...
• Assessing Kampala: The U.S. Could Have Done Worse, ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I have been negligent in failing to post on two excellent assessments of the recent ICC Review Conference in Kampala and its ultimate decision on aggression.  Both assessments (one by Heritage’s Brett Schaefer and the other by George Mason’s Jeremy Rabkin) give the Obam ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wisha ...
  It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the gist of the email that went out to...
• ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest ...
  As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Marc Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 from car exhaust fumes would kill him in an enclosed...
• Sins of Science Media Centre’s Omission
  PR hack Peter Griffin is at it again, this time complaining that a Waikato farmer should have been left to die by medical science, rather than allowing his family to administer the unproven Vitamin C therapy now claimed to have...
• Free TGIF Edition just out
  We're making TGIF available free for now...you can either click on the flash version below, or click the link below it to download the pdf: Open publication - Free publishing - More sport http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=975
• Brits to get hit with 4% income tax hike to pay fo ...
  From Benny Peiser's heads-up: Climate Taxes May Treble By 2020, Costing Taxpayers More Than £16 Billion A Year Gary Peev, Daily Mail, 17 August 2010 Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next...

The World We Live In

• Domain Name Being Changed
  Some of your might have noticed that i have not been posting for a while. It was mostly out of frustration, you see when i started this site, I figured i would use it as a space to publish information, that i felt needed more attention in our life’s. New, views or even just facts [...]
• One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
  I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
• New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
  Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
• At least we are not Dubai
  We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
• 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
  The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...

Center for Food Safety

• Federal Court Rescinds USDA Approval of Geneticall ...
  Order Bans Planting or Sale of Controversial Crop. Court Denies Monsanto Request to Allow Continued Planting. Today Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, issued a ruling granting the request of plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, H ...
• San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Fails to ...
  A recent study commissioned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) seeks to mislead and confuse San Francisco residents about the quality of sewage sludge-derived compost distributed by the PUC. The PUC claims that this sewage sludge-derived compost “compares favorably” to several br ...
• The Story of Cosmetics
  In the latest installment of her “Story of Stuff” videos, Annie Leonard walks us through “The Story of Cosmetics,” and the ugly truth of toxics in, toxics out. Visit the website for an annotated script, viewing party materials, fact sheets and more. As she explains in the Huffington Post, “It turns ...
• Announcing the True Food Shoppers Guide Mobile App
  The Center for Food Safety today launched a new mobile application that will help shoppers to quickly and easily identify foods made with ingredients from genetically modified (GM) organisms.  The free app, “The Center for Food Safety’s True Food Shoppers Guide”, is available for mobile devices thro ...
• Lawsuit Filed to Halt Release of Genetically Engin ...
  An alliance of conservation organizations today sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its approval of open-air field tests of a genetically engineered (GE) hybrid of eucalyptus tree across the southern United States. The permit, issued to a company called ArborGen, which is a joint initiative ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• UN expert urges acceleration of progress for Russi ...
  DisplayNews GENEVA (24 August 2010) – The United Nations expert on indigenous people on Tuesday welcomed “important steps” made by the Government of the Russian Federation towards protecting the rights of the country’s indigenous peoples, while noting that “many indigenous people in Russia continue ...
• The problem of mercenaries
  No Right Turn: The problem of mercenaries : Back in the C16th, Nicolo Machiavelli warned in The Prince of the risks of using mercenaries, calling them useless and dangerous... disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neit ...
• Why raw data sites need journalism
  Why raw data sites need journalism | John Keenan | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk : "According to Alfred Harmsworth, founder of both the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, news is 'what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; the rest is advertising'. By this yardstick, Harmsworth would have agreed that t ...
• Doin’ the Oka Shuffle
  Doin’ the Oka Shuffle - mediaINDIGENA : "You’ve probably heard via the news media that “Oka is heating up again”. That there are “rising tensions with Mohawks on the 20th anniversary of the Oka Crisis”. Maybe you’ve heard that “Mohawks are angry with a developer” who wants to build on land he says ...
• SPLC Fights for Guestworker Teachers Defrauded in ...
  SPLC Fights for Guestworker Teachers Defrauded in International Labor Trafficking Scheme | Southern Poverty Law Center : Hundreds of Filipino guestworkers lured to teach in Louisiana public schools were cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars and forced into exploitative contracts by an internat ...

Pensieve

• Inductee to the Creative Class
  Photo by Gui Trento For the past year or so Iâve been flirting with a design college. Iâve been to their events, spoken to their faculty, visited the campus. After 12 years of yearning to return to college, I could very soon enroll again. The degree they are offering sounds slightly business-lik ...
• Asleep (a short story)
    Photo by eye of einstein I am holding a thread and staring into a labyrinth. Darkness is falling, and the gold of sunset begins to fade from the moss that drapes its walls. Ancient stones lose their friendliness and succumb to moist cold. Only the sky remains cheerful. Inside the labyrinth darknes ...
• Criminal Rule in Honduras
  Photo by markarinafotos While Rome is burning, everyone is hypnotized by the fiddling emperor Chavez. Crime and impunity in Honduras, which steadily worsened during Manuel Zelaya’s administration, has only gotten worse under Porfirio Lobo. But Mr. Lobo is busy courting international opinion, in the ...
• Hurricane Alex Aftermath
  (I wrote the following entry on Friday, July 2, but have been unable to post it until today. As of now, there is no water in my house.) I just arrived home after exploring the are around my home after Hurricane Alex tore through Monterrey. The hurricane made landfall Wednesday night as a category tw ...
• Agatha’s Aftermath in Tegucigalpa
  Over the weekend, tropical storm Agatha, the first of 2010, deluged Central America. Rain had already been falling for weeks in some localities, which brought a level of devastation unheard of since Hurricane Mitch 12 years ago. Over a hundred people lost their lives, 17 or 18 of them in Honduras. H ...

Green Times

• What's On 23 August 2010
  Now the election is over, it’s time to start looking and moving forward. With September almost upon us, and brimming full of events for ecological action, we thought we’d look forward a little. September is “Biodiversity Month”
• Try a veggie meal sometime
  Do you want to help the environmentand animals? Try a vegan (glossary/categories/lifestyle/vegan.html) or vegetarian meal.   Photo by: Ilse Savenije  
• Environmental News 23/08/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Aussie Cash For Clunkers, Green Measure or ‘Greenm ...
  It’s highly likely the cost will be greater and the overall effect will be far short of the mark – in fact it’s just political greenmail…
• Environmental News 13/08/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Obama officials call for drones, military strikes ...
  ShareThis Obama officials call for drones, military strikes in Yemen �24 Aug 2010 For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan Langley - as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said ...
• Democrats pick Meek in Fla.
  ShareThis Democrats pick Meek in Fla. 25 Aug 2010 In Florida, voters delivered a mixed verdict on the outsider versus establishment question. In the Democratic Senate primary, Rep. Kendrick Meek easily defeated billionaire businessman and political novice [and GOP mole] Jeff Greene. His victory set ...
• Obama to appeal stemcell research ruling
  ShareThis Obama to appeal stemcell research ruling 25 Aug 2010� The US Justice Department said Tuesday it will appeal a judge's decision to block federal funding for stemcell research, risking an election year fight over hot button issues of science and religion. "I can confirm we plan to appeal," s ...
• McCain wins Ariz. GOP primary
  ShareThis McCain wins Ariz. GOP primary 24 Aug 2010 Sen. John McCain held off a Republican primary challenge by conservative firebrand J.D. Hayworth in Arizona Tuesday, returns indicated. With votes still being counted late Tuesday, CNN projected McCain, the Republican nominee for president in 2008, ...
• US fires on civilian Bagram protest
  ShareThis US fires on civilian Bagram protest --Western military alliance claimed that soldiers had only fired 'warning shots' 24 Aug 2010 US troops fired on thousands of Afghan civilians as they protested outside the massive US military base at Bagram on Monday. A provincial police official said th ...

Daily Loaf

• Post Primary Recap in today’s Mitch Perry Report 8 ...
  In 2010, the enthusiasm gap is all about the Republicans.
• Tampa Bay food, wine and beer events
  Plan your eating and drinking to-do list with our comprehensive calendar.
• Bill McCollum picks up his marbles and goes home – ...
  Don’t get me wrong, losing stinks, but McCollum who is generally regarded as a good man, and a likeable guy demonstrated a lack of class in refusing to acknowledge opponent Rick Scott won the race fair and squar
• Rays give Angels hell, win 10-3
  Tampa Bay kept pace with the New York Yankees by blowing out Los Angeles/Anaheim. Wade Davis was not his sharpest but pitched well enough for the W in an outing that saw each man in the lineup score a run except John Jaso, who had 2 hits and 2 RBIs.
• On the Radar: Vital Vitale show this Saturday
  Attend the Two Artist Show: Josh Pearson and Tim Jaeger at Vitale Studios this Saturday for mind-challenging eye candy.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah Cleared o ...
  From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. Protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rhamah from Bil’in was convicted of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations today, after an eight months long military trial, during which he was kept behind bars. He was acquitted of a stone-throwing charg ...
• Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic purge an ...
  Reposted from Didi Remez’s Coteret blog. Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) â an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed âleft-wingâ â is a creature of  The Hudson Institute, a ma ...
• Nation of Misguided Teenagers
  by Eitan Isaacson, crossposted at his Monotonous.org blog. “I still don’t understand what I did wrong. Seriously, I don’t understand!” Eden said during a morning radio interview after pictures of her posing next to blindfolded Palestinian detainees were found on her Facebook page. Of course she ...
• Massacre, with a smile
  A few days ago we learned about Eden Aberjil, an Israeli woman who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian prisoners at the time of her military service. The picture is captioned ‘Army service, the most wonderful time of my life!’ The controversy reached the New York ...
• Two laws for two people in the same Place: Intervi ...
  By Jesse Bacon Interview with Fathy Khdirat,  organizer for Jordan Valley Solidarity. I have just finished reading Grapes of Wrath, this group definitely reminded me of the spirit of Tom Joad. Part I: All his life under occupation, personal and family stories. Part II: A government-made water sh ...

Politics in the Zeros

• The failed war on drugs and corruption in the US
  Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields talks about how there are now 25,000 retail outlets for drugs in Tijuana now, that 23,000 have been killed recently in Mexico as a result of the drug wars, and how US border policies are a failure with c ...
• Circle Jerks. Making The Bombs
  I spend my nights in the factory Building bombs for the good of the nation It’s my job can’t you see? Massive plutonium radiation They’re gonna rock and destroy Made from the finest of alloys They’re gonna fly under the radar Six feet over the Russian horizon [Chorus:] Making The Bombs! Making The B ...
• What if the Tea Party was Black?
  YouTube A few months ago, Tim Wise wrote a widely circulated article called, “Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black ” which challenged America to take a close look at the hypocrisy of the Right Wing. Now, a Pittsburgh rapper is accepting his challenge in true Hip Hop form. Jasiri X has released a video ...
• Inside Job. How the banksters looted the country
  From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. ...
• ‘Epidemic of thrift’ hits US. Analysts horrified
  Dang it folks, just what is your problem? Apparently you’ve all been saving and being thrifty rather than taking on more debt and buying stuff you don’t need. This is just so wrong. And it’s hurting the economy. “There is an epidemic of thrift,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Inc. in ...

Coteret

• Im Tirzu becomes a right-wing liability (and spark ...
  Im Tirzu apparently overplayed its hand when it went after Ben Gurion University (BGU). Even the usually timid heads of the Israeli academe felt they had to react: Their institutions were under threat. One by one they gave interviews and published op-eds. As Hebrew University’s Avner de-Shalit wri ...
• Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic pu ...
  Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) — an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed âleft-wingâ — is a creature of  The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, ...
• Hudson Institute, Uzi Arad (and Iran) ctd.: The mo ...
  Last Thursday (August 19 2010) Coteret demonstrated that The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, which played an active role in shaping the Bush administrationâs Middle East policies, has been the largest financial backer of the Institute for Zionist Strategie ...
• Maariv: Emanuel told Dermer “don’t fuc ...
  In this Friday’s Maariv, senior diplomatic columnist Ben Caspit speculates on where the diplomatic process, and US-Israeli relations, are headed [full translation of section at bottom of post]. For color, he gives us this: In any case, the real US attitude towards the Netanyahu government hasn’t c ...
• Hudson Inst primary financial backer of NGO behind ...
  Shira Beery provided significant research for this post. —– Newly uncovered documentation reveals that The Hudson Institute, an influential and activist neoconservative think-tank, has provided nearly $500,000 to the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS), an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongo ...

Deadline Live

• Experimental Military Weapons Being Used On Americ ...
  August 24, 2010 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15138').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
• Seth MacFarlane Slams The ADL For Not Doing Their ...
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• Hindenburg Omen Tripped Again
  By Steven Russolillo The Hindenburg Omen reared its ugly head late last week, signaling more doom and gloom as stocks plod along amid the dog days of summer. The Omen, a technical indicator which uses a plethora of data to foreshadow a stock-market crash, was tripped again on Friday, marking the sec ...
• NOPD Officer Says They Were Ordered To Shoot Loote ...
  NOPD Officer Says They Were Ordered To Shoot Looters After Katrina Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15131').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
• This Day In History – August 25
  1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage. 1814 – Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812. 1835 – The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax. 1944 – Paris is ...

The Air Vent

• Wider Band Chlorophyll Discovered
  I don’t have time for much blogging today.  Geoff Sherrington sent a link to a different article about this a couple of days ago.  It’s interesting because the expanded collection range of this chlorophyll would improve efficiency sligtly for biofuel type solutions. It doesn’t sound like anywhere ...
• Understanding Climate
  I’m not sure what the heck this post is.  I suppose it’s my attitude toward AGW after two years of discussing climate science in blogland.  Perhaps after a couple of weeks of publishing accurate pro-AGW science (not extremist) it’s cathartic to post the rest of the story. Possible alternate titles ...
• Charlatans of Science Zhao and Running
  Ok, this is the latest in global warming propaganda: MISSOULA, Mont., Aug. 20 (UPI) — Plant productivity around the world, once on the rise with warming temperatures and a longer growing season, is declining because of droughts, researchers say. Researchers at the University of Montana analyzed NASA ...
• Comparison and Critique of Anomaly Combination Met ...
  This post is a comparison of the first difference method with other anomaly methods and an explanation of why first difference methods don’t work well for temperature series as well as comparison to other methods. The calculatoins here are relatively simple.  First I built 10,000 artificial temp se ...
• Three Views on a Mosque
  We all keep reading about the ground zero hundred million dollar mosque.  The news writes what they allege are the mainstream views on the subject. 1 – From the perspective of Americans, it’s an issue with freedom of religion vs an issue of sensitivity to the heinous murder of thousands of people b ...

Focal Point

• Let The Eat Cake, Or Brine Shrimp: NYT Celebrates ...
  How are cutting-edge conspicuous consumers blowing their excess cash? Fantasy fish tanks, according to the New York Times. The Home and Garden section devoted hundreds of words to the "six-figure fish tank" trend. One super-custom tank cost $750,000, according to the article. People who pay over $5 ...
• Book Review: "Charlatan: America's most dangerous ...
  Charlatan is one of my top two goat-related works of narrative non-fiction. Brock Pope's gripping account of the rise and fall of one of the most flamboyant and deadly quacks of all time edges out Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats for the top spot. The quack in question was "Dr." John Brinkey ...
• Why Did SEIU Give $100,000 to the Republican Gover ...
  By now you've probably heard about Fox News' parent corporation giving a million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. Noteworthy, but not necessarily surprising. While leafing through the RGA's IRS filings for Working In These Times , I discovered something out of the ordinary: The Serv ...
• Hal Turner Diaries: Radio Host Guilt of Threatenin ...
  A jury in Brooklyn found right wing radio talk show host and blogger Hal Turner guilty of threatening to murder three federal judges, Friday: "Turner was arrested and charged in June 2009 for writing Internet postings that month that proclaimed “outrage” over a handgun decision by Chief Judge F ...
• "Cathy" was not a Feminist Trailblazer
  Is Mary Beth Williams playing madlibs with "...feminist trailblazer"? That would explain her post entitled "Goodbye Cathy, feminist trailblazer" . The "Cathy" in question is Cathy Guisewite's syndicated strip about a desperate, sad sack single woman named Cathy. Guisewite announced last week that sh ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Updates Friend List Interface Again, Hopi ...
  In a small update that might be hinting at more changes to come, Facebook has altered how users select friends to add to their friends lists. Previously, when you approved a friend request, the interface included an option to add a friend to one or more lists. Now, you just see two buttons next to [ ...
• Conversation Bridges Traditional Marketing and Fac ...
  Conversation is a marketing firm founded in New York City in 2008 by Frank O’Brien and now has offices in Los Angeles, Miami and London. The firm was created to try to unite traditional marketing strategies with emerging media and non-traditional marketing, O’Brien tells us, and works with companies ...
• SocialBuzz Leads This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaini ...
  This week’s list of fastest-gaining Facebook apps from AppData by monthly active users includes an unsurprising mix of social games and simple applications, along with what appears to be a surge among mobile apps. But first, a couple notes. First, Facebook has modified its reporting methodology for ...
• Eminem, Bieber, Gaga, TV and Tech on Facebook’s 20 ...
  Music dominated this week’s list of the fastest-growing Facebook Pages, as counted with our PageData tool, tracking the number of Likes added to a Page each day. Nine of the 20 Pages belonged to musicians, the rest went to animated and live action TV shows, Facebook, YouTube, Megan Fox, Cristiano Ro ...
• Facebook Becomes More Important to Red Cross Fundr ...
  Facebook is now at the center of the American Red Cross‘ efforts to keep the public informed about disaster relief, especially after a catastrophic event like the Chile or Haiti earthquakes, says Wendy Harman, the organizationâs director of social media. It was particularly after the Haiti earthq ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: US Submits Historic Human Rights Report ...
  truthout: US Submits Historic Human Rights Report to UN, but Seriously Disappoints http://bit.ly/dwivSb #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Rachel Maddow | New Law Protects America ...
  truthout: Rachel Maddow | New Law Protects Americans From Credit Card Predators (Video) http://bit.ly/9mlShV #Truthout #p2
• truthout: McConnell Repeats Debunked Lies to Promo ...
  truthout: McConnell Repeats Debunked Lies to Promote More Tax Cuts for Multi-Millionaires http://bit.ly/9Ft8T3 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Wanted: Tough Trade Negotiator http://bi ...
  truthout: Wanted: Tough Trade Negotiator http://bit.ly/b8JT46 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Cannibalism or Disinfectant? Missing the ...
  truthout: Cannibalism or Disinfectant? Missing the Plot in Arizona http://bit.ly/97IdUE #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Iraq war dissenter Kelly’s postmortem report remai ...
  British Attorney-General Dominic Grieve’s response to widespread calls for Dr David Kelly’s postmortem files to be released continues to indicate that the government is hiding something of importance, argues Christopher King.
• Israel’s sickness goes beyond one soldier and her ...
  Lawrence Davidson considers the case of the female Israeli soldier who posted pictures of herself with handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. He argues that, rather than being an isolated incident, this is in fact symptomatic of the indecency of the State of Israel and its ideology, Zioni ...
• Zionists in bid to subvert Wikipedia
  Gilad Atzmon views the latest attempts by Israelis, Zionists and “anti-Zionist” pretenders to sabotage the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
• The secrets in Israel’s archives: evidence of ethn ...
  Jonathan Cook reports that secrets of serious war crimes, such as the ethnic cleansing of the Syrian Golan Heights following the 1967 war, lay behind the Israeli government’s decision to extend from 50 to70 years the period during which sensitive state documents must remain classified.
• Who is the Israeli state loyal to?
  Neve Gordon argues that the demand of a loyalty oath in Israel has ominous similarities to the demands made by Mussolini's Italy, and that the Israeli state must “be loyal to all of its citizens, regardless of race, colour, gender, language, religion, political opinions, national or social origin, p ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
• Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
  President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
• Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
  In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
• Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
  The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
• Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
  Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Podcast Show #31
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Ray McGovern Ray McGovern shares with us his analysis of the recent article published in the Atlantic written by the infamous American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg on Israel’s case for bombing Iran and the reasons why the United States should join in. He talks about t ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Jamiol Presents
• Podcast Show #30
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Carlos Miller Carlos Miller provides us with an overview of the history, purpose and mission of his award-winning website Photography is Not a Crime. He talks about First Amendment violations against photographers throughout the country, which occur on a shockingly regul ...
• Is WikiLeaks the antidote to the Washington K Stre ...
  The acid test for Washington’s beltway experts Since the end of the cold war, the U.S. had been looking for an enemy to match the Soviet Union and came up empty handed until 9/11. Refocusing the efforts of the world’s largest and most expensive military empire on Al Qaeda would provide the incentive ...

Afro Spear

• Why I Chose Obama For President
  Because of hunger.  Not the kind of distended belly hunger from poverty and having no food.  But a hunger none the less.  A hunger for the beauty of my blackness.  The hunger for a representation that I can be proud of and hold my head up for.  A representation that stares back at me and [...]
• sat’day riddymz
• 3 Things About Islam You Didn’t Know
  Someone sent me this. A further perspective on Islam:
• Happy Birthday Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.
  Jamaican National Hero, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), as well as a major influence and inspiration to many of our African, African-American and Caribbean leaders and intellectuals, Marcus Mosiah Garvey ...
• A Move Towards Religious Tolerance
  This post was inspired by this article by brotherpeacemaker: “In The Name Of Freedom Build The Mosque”  In regards to the controversy surrounding the building of a mosque and cultural center two blocks away from the site of Ground Zero, America has a golden opportunity to lead in the march towards ...

Expose the BNP

• Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
  A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
• Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
  The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...

Sen4Earth

• Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
  SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
• Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
  The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
• Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
  In April SEN published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...

If Americans Knew

• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

• CORPORATE STATES OF AMERICA
  Do you want to continue to have a say, albeit, not very much, in what goes on in this government? If you do, you must act, as outlined below, as soon as possible. We have got to give it a try, even if we go down, we must stop the corporate takeover. This is so [...]
• TEABAGGERS REFRAIN
  Government is the only thing standing between us and all those who would harm us, in one form or another! Be it war, medicine, unsafe products, the list is endless. Corporate America has taken over our Government and it is the reason we’re in such a mess. Don’t blindly get on a bandwagon of non-thin ...
• Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered ...
  A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go ...
• BP BLOCKED WORKERS
  BP blocked workers cleaning up the oil disaster in the Gulf from wearing protective respirators.
• Jim Geer in handcuffs!
  Chair Karen Thurman has repeatedly demanded a full and independent investigation. But the Republicans who control Tallahassee are trying to block the investigations into their culture of corruption, instead trying to make Jim Greer the fall guy for their misdeeds.

Unsuitable Blog

• Cairn Energy Buries Truth in Business Speak
  Below is a verbatim lift from the Corporate Responsibility page on the website of Cairn Energy. I have just highlighted the one key point that you must bear in mind when reading: Cairn’s strategy is to deliver shareholder value through establishing commercial reserves in high potential exploration ...
• Pat Michaels Lets His Funding Veil Slip
  After umpteen years denying the (civilized) human influence on climate change, and in parallel denying he was influenced financially or otherwise by fossil fuel interests, uber-denier Pat Michaels let slip some of the source of his funding – and by implication, some of the source of his climate chan ...
• Greenwashing In The BBC [Guest Article]
  Greenwashing has a habit of making it into every facet of our society, not just from the obvious sources such as the PR offices of polluting corporations, but also for example from major charities and in the media. A recent example I came across is a blog post from last October by the BBC’s [...]
• Monthly Undermining Task, August 2010: Crash The M ...
  They (350.org) refuse to countenance the idea that industrial civilization is the problem – every action leads to the Senate, even requests to non-US “members” lead to the Senate. They are like a stuck record – a really dated record, like Alice Cooper trying to down with the kids when he spends mos ...
• Can a Shopping Voucher Skew Survey Results?
  A couple of weeks ago I – or rather our house – received a letter from an organisation called the National Centre for Social Research, inviting us to take part in an annual survey called British Social Attitudes. I like filling in surveys when I have time because it lets me think more about what [. ...

Subalternate Reality

• Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
  Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
• Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
  crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
• GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
  Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
• Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
  Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
• Aliou Kumbaya
  My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• Helping D.C. Drinkers and Bikers with Custom Maps
  In my last post about TileMill , I outlined some of our general plans and the background for why we’re working on this project to help make it easier for people to design very custom maps online. One question that we get a lot from people who are new to the GIS space is, “When would I need this? How ...
• One-Eight, Afghanistan: Social Media + U.S. Marine ...
  As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for." In my case, I won a Knight News Challenge grant to launch an online, social media reporting network that follows a battalion of U.S. Marines throughout their deployment to southern Afghanistan. (Congratulations! You've won a year in Helmand Prov ...
• NowSpots: Working to Make Local Web Ads That Work
  NowSpots are beautiful online ads that feature the latest social media updates from advertisers, and make it easy for a reader to follow and share their content across the web. For the last year at WindyCitizen.com , a social network for Chicago news aficionados and urban explorers, we've been s ...
• Programmer-Journalists Apply Talents to News21 Mul ...
  Manya Gupta and Andrew Paley are the first Knight "programmer-journalist" scholarship winners to participate in the News21 multimedia reporting project, an initiative in its fifth year that engages some of the nation's top journalism master's students. The Northwestern University team that Manya an ...
• Front Porch Forum: Connecting Strangers in the Nei ...
  Mention the Internet, and most people think of the World Wide Web, of reaching out across the globe for news, long-lost friends, or low-price bargains. But in dozens of Vermont towns, residents are using the web to connect with their back-fence neighbors. In an era where national and global informat ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Mortgage Meltdown - Some Foreclosure Rescue Sc ...
  Desperate U.S. homeowners facing foreclosure are being duped by con artists. The scammers employ a variety of schemes such as a “forensic mortgage loan audit” that promises to find errors in loan origination terms that will help the homeowner negotiate a loan modification or even cancel the loan, ac ...
• The Toxic Edge - Mexico's Asbestos Casualties Moun ...
  Situated among homes and schools in Barrio de San Lucas, a working-class neighborhood in the Mexico City suburb of Iztapalapa, the fortress-like brick building emits a pungent, scorched-rubber odor that makes the eyes water and the head throb. It’s impossible to see inside. A maker of asbestos brake ...
• Ground Zero Mosque - Russell Simmons is Quite Wron ...
  I�still remember, Russell, when you came to my debate with Rev. Al Sharpton, nine years ago, in New York City. You struck me then as a man of warmth and openness. In that spirit I offer you this response to your recent blog postings in the Huffington Post�supporting the Ground Zero mosque and your c ...
• Ground Zero Mosque Endorsed by Hamas as a "Must"
  The Hamas terror group has endorsed the Ground Zero Mosque. Its cofounder Mahmoud al-Zahar declared, "We have to build everywhere." He also said, "We have to build the mosque, as you are allowed to build the church and Israelis are building their holy places." Now what does this tell you about the p ...
• Mendoza Against the Deaf - The Last Stand for the ...
  Special interest groups with a lack of ethics are currently making their way through the Capitol in Sacramento to lobby for the bill AB 2072. On one hand, in the legal prose, AB 2072 is about parents’ choices for their Deaf newborns. On the other hand, analyzing the jargon, it is about corporations’ ...

High Country News

• What have we learned a century after the Big Blowu ...
  The West's most devastating wildfire left its marks on the land in more than one way.
• Surprises flow from Ruby Pipeline
  A conservation fund provided by an energy company enrages ranchers across Oregon, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.
• Slobs at Lake Powell foment a revolt
  Rather than rail against Lake Powell's mere existence, conservationists should try to restore and protect the landscape that is still there.
• Medical marijuana trips up Montana
  Montana's medical marijuana law is unnecessarily confusing and complicated.
• High Country Views, episode 9
  Ray Ring and Cally Carswell discuss environmental dealmaking.

CounterCurrents

• Major Reports Point To Oil Supply Turmoil And Pric ...
  By Matthew Wild Major energy reports published this year are pointing to a significant rise in the price of oil due to supply constraints sometime over the next three years the only disagreement is how soon
• Why The Wars Cant Be Won
  By Prof. John Kozy The Vietnamese never broke. Now again Americans are foolishly assuming that the peoples of the Middle East will change their attitudes if enough force is imposed for a long enough time and enough promises of a better future are made. History belies this assumption
• Two Minutes To Midnight?: Cutting Through The Medi ...
  By Tony Karon Americas march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, a similarly flawed media conversation on Iran is gaining momentum
• Nuclear Winter
  By Fidel Castro One can imagine my surprise when I learned that a nuclear world war was not needed for our species to disappear. It would be enough to have a nuclear conflict between two of the weaker nuclear powers, such as India and Pakistan who nevertheless have between the two of them much more ...
• US Drone Strike Destroys House Full Of Children In ...
  By Jason Ditz The Obama Administrations policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of suspected militants in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children. The combined toll from the blast wa ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• WAR IS OVER… If You Claim It?
  In the midst of pleasant nods about “the end of the Iraq War,” Mr. Stephen Colbert celebrates in style… (Click The Word-What if they threw a peace and nobody came) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – What If You Threw a Peace and Nobody Came? www.colbertnation.com Colbert Repo ...
• Vigiling in Afghanistan
  More amazing work from Our Journey to Smile
• 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
  The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...
• The other side of Afghanistan
• Days 9-11: Solitude, Mountains, and Humanity
  The first time I talked to Ymani, one of our hosts in Asheville, NC, I was at Salam’s house in Berkeley, CA. The first cross-country trek that I embarked on was drawing to an end and I was entering all kinds of scenarios into google maps to try to incorporate Asheville into the plans before [...]

Yid With Lid

• Top Marine General Says The US Withdrawal Deadline ...
  One of the major objections to a deadline for an American Troop withdrawal is, knowing the deadline the Taliban will just bide their time until the Americans get out of Dodge.� According to the ranking U.S. Marine general,� President Barack Obama’s announced July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing ...
• To Understand Why Direct Talks Will Fail You Must ...
  By Barry Rubin While explaining how the U.S. and European effort to start direct talks was going to fail because it neglected to consider Palestinian politics and ideology, I'm still amazed by how rapidly this point was proven. Briefly, the Palestinian Authority continues to be dominated by ...
• Charlie Rangel Lashes Out at Obama and His Inexper ...
  Charlie Rangel is still smarting from the President's comment that he should� “end his career with dignity.” At a "debate" of Democrats challenging the embattled Rangel for the nomination in next month's primary, the 40 year congressional veteran was continually attacked for the ethics violations h ...
• Is The Iranian "Green Revolution" Near The Tippin ...
  While most of the world's attention has focused Iran's nuclear weapons program and its threats to the West, there are other "goings on" in Iran not front and center in the media's coverage of the terrorist state. The protests against the current regime that began last June with the stolen election a ...
• Counter-Terror Adviser Brennan Changes Stance on J ...
  In a meeting with the Washington Times Editorial Board, White House Counter-Terror Adviser John Brennan was forced to contradict his contention that Jihad had nothing to with violence and immediately stormed out of the office. Brennan caused a stir at the end of May when he told the Center for ...

The Real Agenda

• H1N1 Flu: The Fraud that was… the Danger to ...
  How would you like a seasonal flu vaccine mixed with an H1N1 virus? How would you like it to be mandatory? The people did not buy the lies last season, but as it happens in the best of the sequels, the villans are back more aggressive than ever. The pharmaceutical corporations concocting a plan ...
• Death is “Reasonable” to Save Society
  In a 1995 article written by Gretchen Daily and Ecoscience co-author Paul R. Ehrlich, the authors put forward the proposition that physicians should no longer concentrate on improving the health of their individual patients, or treat occurring infections in order to save the patients life, but rathe ...
• Enough Government Control and Quackery? Not yet. M ...
  Real honest pharmaceutical drugs — antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — are in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans. In addition, illegal drugs like cocaine and LSD end up in water, as a studies in Europe reveal. Not only are public officials not ...
• The Deliberate Intent To Deceive People Is At An A ...
  Marco Torres From pollution to politics, the era of deception and duplicity has reached new heights and hijacked almost every form of media in the world. In the last frontiers for truth such as the internet, disinformation operations are in full swing to discredit and destroy any semblance of authen ...
• Google’s Plans to Take Over The Internet Exposed!
  Google’s agreement with Verizon to speed certain Internet content to users opens the door to the complete sterilization of the world wide web as a force for political change. Under Google’s takeover plan, the Internet will closely resemble cable TV, independent voices will be silenced and the entire ...

Wind Watch

• Human noise ‘leads fish from habitats’
  Noise pollution from shipping, drilling for oil or wind farms could lead fish away from their natural habitat into areas where they could die, potentially devastating future fish stocks. A British-led team made the discovery while working on the Great Barrier Reef â as well as debunking the myth t ...
• Villagers ready for another battle against giant t ...
  Villagers have stepped up their latest campaign against a wind farm plan believed to be among the most unpopular planning applications Dorset has ever seen. Two years ago, a record 1,987 people wrote to North Dorset District Council to object to plans to build six giant turbines – each 120 metres (3 ...
• JCIDA: all jurisdictions must agree to PILOTs
  Jefferson County could see repeats of the rancor that accompanied the Galloo Island Wind Farm payment-in-lieu-of-taxes approval at the county Legislature after changes made Tuesday morning. A payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for any wind power project will need approval from all of the involved ta ...
• Lightning strike burns down wind turbine
  PETERSON, Iowa — A lightening strike started a fire in a wind turbine Saturday morning, destroying the turbine and one of three new blades that had been laid out on the ground beneath it in order to be installed as replacements. Damages totaled $760,000, according to Peterson Fire Chief John Winterb ...
• Wind farms could face new restrictions as Governme ...
  Energy companies could face new restrictions on wind farm projects after ministers launched a review of the way noise pollution is taken into account by planners. The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has admitted noise regulations are applied “inconsistently” by councils and planning ...

Not My Tribe

• 9/12 thoughts then and now… the Left was rig ...
  Because, you see, the trained flying-monkeys of the NeoCons are once more going to hold their 9/12 rally, where we’re supposed to remember and meditate on how we felt the next day. It didn’t take THAT long. There were plenty of red-flag warnings that Bush was going to pull something like that off. W ...
• Hillendale Farm bursts pastoral cliche
  The recall of salmonella-tainted eggs reaches half-billion as second farm implicated. Wait a minute, we’re only up to two farms? What kind of “farm” yields 250 million eggs? Not one you’d picture called Sunny Farms, or Sunny Meadow, or Wholesome Farms, or West Creek. These are the pastoral facades b ...
• Scam auction site Swipebids poses French celebrity ...
  Penny auction scammers know their audience. Stupid Americans aren’t going to recognize one phony news reporter over another, even if it’s French anchorwoman Melissa Theuriau. Imagine if Lisa Hartman’s misnamed image popped up in embedded ads for pseudo-news reports.   Not only are fake “penny auctio ...
• How Beastly-Animals in Revolt…
  Also titled “Unbearable” and “revolting animals”. The story, COLUMBIA STATION, Ohio â A bear attacked and killed its caretaker at the home of a man who kept a menagerie of dangerous, exotic beasts and ran afoul of animal regulators a few years ago by staging wrestling matches between bears and hum ...
• Generals say “we’ll only resume combat ...
  ..the Iraqi people reject our Puppet Dictatorship. Meanwhile we’ll keep our bases there to intimidate them into not developing a rebellious attitude, like thinking they’re good enough to rule themselves without our intereference. And of course make sure the Iraqi government lives up to the agreement ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Reply: 9/11 and the Thermite Ninjas
  Not too long ago YouTube user " MartinJWillett " asked the question: "Why would anybody seeking to create a bogus reason to go to war need the Twin Towers to collapse?" Here is the answer . Now it's my turn to make an inquiry... When will "debunkers" stop with the a priori objections and recogni ...
• Participants in RAF Shoot-Down Drill of Hijacked A ...
  Some more hidden truth from the UK Tabloid... RAF jets practise shooting down hijacked down hijacked airliner. RAF fighter pilots staged a dramatic rehearsal of plans to shoot down a passenger jet hijacked by terrorists. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Home Secretary Theresa May and Security ...
• Debunking Joseph Nobles: 7 Problems With 7 Respons ...
  Debunker Joseph Nobles has recently made a new version of his site , although it is still very much incomplete. In his latest post he has decided to address the newest site on WTC 7 made by former NASA engineer Dwain Deets . Unlike Pat Curley , who decided to examine only a few of Mr. Deets' points ...
• 7/7 The Big Picture
  Keelan Balderson- wideshutuk Youtube.com A very good documentary on the 7/7 bombings. Very precise, informative, and (as pointed out in part one) not made by someone claiming to be the Messiah. Side note: The maker of this film informed me that more parts will be uploaded, so the playlist will h ...
• Debunking Dave Thomas, Ryan Mackey, and Zdenek Baz ...
  So the 9/11 debate between Richard Gage and Dave Thomas on Coast to Coast AM took place last night and I forgot to tune in. A commenter at the JREF forum says they are going to post. it. if so I will link it here later. In the meantime, I was scanning the comments there and in the Above Top Secret f ...

Fooducate

• Four Cheese Pizza – DiGiorno’s vs. Newman’s Own
  Everyone loves pizza. It’s the #1 looked up entry in yellow pages and very popular in google searches as well. While dining at a pizzeria or getting delivered to your home are the most popular consumption modes, people are going to want this goodness on call in their freezer as well. There’s an ent ...
• Nothing Special About Added Fiber in Special K Cer ...
  Kellogg’s Special K line of cereals has quietly been upgraded nutritionally. Sort of. The company has added 1 gram of fiber to the Special K’s, excluding the original flavor. One gram doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s 50% more than the 2 grams already present. And more importantly, it takes the fi ...
• School Snack Suggestions?
  Millions of nerve-wracked parents will be liberated in the coming weeks, after spending a long hot summer trying to entertain their vacationing offspring. Kids, we love ya, but glad to see you back on a schedule with sane bedtime hours, structure to the day, and less ruckus at home. As it relates t ...
• Half a Billion Eggs Recalled. 5 Tips to Play It Sa ...
  With 3 recalls in just 2 weeks, this summer salmonella fest has got to be one of the biggest food safety scares of 2010.   And since nobody is saying this is over yet, there could be more cases reported next week. Bill Marler and Marion Nestle are doing a great job reporting on the outbreak, [...]
• Food at the Beach
  A short blog post today – heading out to the beach with the kids for some fun in the sun before the school year begins. Kids get very hungry swimming and building sandcastles, but the sand and the heat make it a challenge to keep everyone fed and hydrated while maintaining at least some semblence o ...

Traffikd

• 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
• Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
  Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
• 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
  This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
• Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
  One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
• 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
  I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...

Clearreaching

• Farewell
  Dear friends, As time passes it is getting harder and harder for me to keep the English part of my blog. I will therefore have to stop it here. Thank you very much for reading it and commenting. Special thanks to Meow, ersi and James for their insightful inputs. It was my honour to receive them. ...
• Not our fault
  I had to write an article on Lacan for a Greek magazine recently. In the past couple of months that I’ve been reading all related literature, I was impressed by the way Lacan tried to solve the riddle of human psychology. At the root of every want/desire that we feel, he said, there is a primary wan ...
• Happiness super market
  I’ve been into the triptych “love-beauty-enlightenment” since I was 18. I’ve tried many methods, among which: the Emin Way , Reiki , SRT , channeling and divinations of sorts. I’ve read tons of New Age books about spirituality, enlightenment, immortality and so on and so on. I boasted that I knew th ...
• Test your EQ!
  I am going on vacation for a week, but I’ll leave you with a little test which is supposed to measure the EQ: There is a woman and a man, who love each other but live on two different islands. The man shares his island with a savage. The woman seeks a way to get to the man’s island, because she lov ...
• Predisposition
  For the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, the soul had something that was called “fora”, meaning direction. In other words, the soul was thought to have taken up, long before the birth of the body it inhabited, the direction of good or evil. Thus, man was considered to be born good or bad. Quite som ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Life Su ...
  Sierra Leone has diverse tribal and cutural practices that works against the education of the nation's children.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Our children are taught right from wrong when growing up.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Despite war, we are doing our best to cope.
• Conflict Minerals: the New Blood Diamonds
  Hundreds of millions of dollars flow into resource-rich areas such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, but that money goes to corrupt rebel forces who abuse and exploit their own people.
• Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
  After its civil war, Sierra Leone was able to get the brutality of its diamond trade under control. The rest of Africa, for the most part, has not shared its success.

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
• Hydroelectricity
  Hydroelectricity is obtained from the ENERGY contained in falling water; it is a renewable, comparatively nonpolluting energy source and Canada's largest source of ELECTRIC-POWER GENERATION . In N America in the 1850s the
• Champlain, Samuel de
  Samuel de Champlain, cartographer, explorer, governor of New France (b at Brouage, France c 1570; d at Qu�bec City 25 Dec 1635). The major role Champlain played in the St Lawrence River area earned him the title of
• Carr, Emily
  Emily Carr, painter, writer (b at Victoria 13 Dec 1871; d there 2 Mar 1945). Her parents were English people who had settled in the small provincial town of Victoria, where her father became a successful merchant and respected
• King, William Lyon Mackenzie
  William Lyon Mackenzie King, politician, prime minister of Canada 1921-26, 1926-30 and 1935-48 (b at Berlin [Kitchener], Ont 17 Dec 1874; d at Ottawa 22 July 1950), grandson of William Lyon MACKENZIE. Leader of the LIBERAL PARTY

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle leather/suede purse/bag ...
  We’ve had an email from Joanne: Hi, I have an old leather zipped wallet type purse which is old, worn and quite grubby. I would rather recycle it somehow than put it in the bin but am not sure how to do this. Do you have any ideas? First, it obviously depends on the state [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle jigsaws?
  We’ve had an email from Kathy asking about getting rid of her children’s old jigsaws: I just know they’ve got pieces missing so would feel bad about giving them to a charity shop. They’re cardboard with a shiny paper top so they could be recycled? Probably – as long as it’s just paper and not [...]
• How can I “repair” too runny/too solid ...
  It’s very definitely jam season at the moment (in the UK at least) and I thought it might be fun to hear people’s favourite fixes for sticky situations (ho ho!) when the preserves don’t come out quite as you’d hoped. How do you test for the set point? The most common method seems to be [...]
• How can I build a baby playpen reusing or recyclin ...
  Early 2009 was apparently a boring time around here: every couple we know – bar one other couple & us – had a baby last autumn/winter. (The other couple are expecting their first in just over a month; we got a dog & chickens instead.) All the babies are starting to crawl/walk with support now [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle trade-size ice cream tu ...
  The other day, John and I were hanging around a dumpster at the back of an ice cream parlour — as you do — and spotted it was full of 5ltr plastic ice cream tubs. In our house, ice cream tubs are one of our favourite plastics to reuse – rectangular 1ltr square tubs are [...]

Mondoweiss

• Yale conference on anti-Semitism targets Palestini ...
  This is disturbing. A Yale University center that purports to study anti-Semitism is holding a three-day conference on "the crisis" of global anti-Semitism (ending tomorrow) that is dedicated to the idea that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. The flotilla raid, anti-Semitic. Helen Thomas, ant ...
• Free Gaza Movement commemorates anniversary of fir ...
  While searching for news on the often-postponed voyage of the Lebanese all-women’s aid ship to Gaza, I stumbled upon a notice that yesterday, August 23rd, was the second anniversary of the landing of the first two boats to break the decades-long Israeli naval blockade of that beleaguered Palestinia ...
• Palestinian farm set afire, four well permits deni ...
  and other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Bedouin women protest razing of villages Demonstrators outside Interior Ministry say demolition of Bedouin homes in unrecognized villages shows State has 'no respect for human dignity'. http://www.ynetnew ...
• Internet Killed Israeli PR: An interview with Mino ...
  AH: Why did you make this video? MDT: Our primary intention was simply to provide some comic relief for a community (Palestine solidarity activists) that is still grieving for the nine innocent people who were murdered by the Israeli military aboard the Mavi Marmara. And if we could embarrass some o ...
• As a city that is compact together
  Whenever I come back to Jerusalem, I notice all of the things that have changed since my last visit and inevitably compare things to the way they were when I was growing up: old buildings torn down or renovated, new ones put up, changing demography, greater sophistication alongside persistent provin ...

Media Consortium

• Can apps save news journalism? | Adrian Monck | Co ...
  "Serious news organisations have placed their bets. With Apple selling a million iPads in barely a month, paid iPad applications from the likes of the Times and the Financial Times line up on app stores with free offerings from the BBC and Thomson Reuters. But already there are signs that native ne ...
• Can apps save news journalism? | Adrian Monck | Co ...
  But taking Anderson's argument face on, where does the rise of the app leave the news business, the flatulent Rottweiler in the dog shelter of online content? Can apps give it a caring home at last?
• Times Builds 'Jargonator' to Help Readers Decipher ...
  Apparently the Times Interactive News Technologies team also realized that the two dozen or so documents they were unleashing on their Web site weren't going to have much impact if their readers couldn't make head or tails of them. So they quickly developed a nifty roll-over tool, which internally t ...
• All Our Ideas facilitates crowdsourcing — of opini ...
  Meet All Our Ideas, the “suggestion box for the digital age“: a crowdsourcing platform designed to crowdsource concepts and opinions rather than facts alone. The platform was designed by a team at Princeton under the leadership of sociology professor Matt Salganik — initially, to create a web-native ...
• A Magazine Meant for Mobile - NYTimes.com
  The magazine, called Nomad Editions and created by a New York start-up of the same name, will feature the work of freelance journalists with expertise in a specific area, like surfing or movies. Every Friday, starting in October, subscribers will receive through a mobile application what amounts to ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...
• "Martial Law" G20 charge disappears
  It appears government doesn't want to test Public Works Protection Act in court. [View:http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews#p/u/3/ZdFj9EsKM5Y:640:360]
• Investing in schools and infrastructure is the bes ...
  In Washington, a great debate has broken out. The Republicans want to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, saying that it's a good stimulant for the economy. Others are saying direct funding by states in infrastructure and schools is a much better form of stimulus and growth. A new study by Jeff Thompso ...
• A "STINKER" OF A JOBS REPORT AND HARPER SAYS IT'S ...
  "It's a stinker," says Bill Gross about the latest report on Canadian unemployment.� As manager of the world's largest mutual fund (based in California), I guess Gross knows a thing or two about money. As reported in Bloomberg, Gross also said commodity-based economies like Canada's aren't doing as ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• US Department of Justice will appeal stem cell inj ...
  The US Department of Justice will quickly appeal yesterday's district court injunction temporarily freezing federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, a department spokesman said today. The department aims to appeal this week to the US Court of Appeals for the DIstrict of Columbia, ask ...
• A treasure trove of planets
  There may be no place like home but the solar system around HD 10180 seems to be getting closer. Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) now say this 4.3 billion-year-old, sun-like star has at least five planets circling around it, a similar number to our own eight-planet solar sys ...
• For a trailblazer, an answer in genetics?
  Hugh Rienhoff’s quest to find a diagnosis for his daughter, Beatrice, (six, pictured) means many things to many people. He was seen as a trailblazer in personal genomics and do-it-yourself biology as he got to work on a second-hand PCR machine cloning genes from his daughter, who appears to have ...
• Chemistry credit disputes under the spotlight
  A survey of six hundred chemists has found that half of them feel they have not been given sufficient credit for a contribution made to another's published research. Many of those who felt wronged said they were afraid of speaking up if it meant confronting the senior author. The finding is part ...
• No oil found off Greenland ... yet
  Tensions in the Arctic are rising again after a Scottish company confirmed indications of oil off the coast of Greenland. Cairn Energy has not struck oil, but it says its “first well in Greenland provides early indication of working hydrocarbon system”. Although some wells were drilled in this ...

new geography

• The China Syndrome
  China's ascension to the world's second-largest economy, surpassing Japan, has led to predictions that it will inevitably snatch the No. 1 spot from the United States. Nomura Securities envisions China surpassing the U.S.' total GDP in little more than a decade. And economist Robert Fogel predicts t ...
• The Disappearance of the Next Middle Class
  Every week we read that yet another major housing project has been turned down by the Courts here in New Zealand because of the need to protect "rural character" or "natural landscapes". This may well have profound short and long-term consequences for the future of our middle class, as it does for t ...
• China's Sliver of a Housing Bubble
  Few finance issues have received such a wide range of opinions among financial experts than the "housing bubble" in China. This is an issue of international importance because what happens in what is now the world’s 2nd largest economy affects the rest of the world. Differing Views: There are fre ...
• Can We Socialize Ourselves to Good Health?
  How can we reduce health problems in society? Should we tackle poverty and social problems such as crime and drug abuse, or is the problem inequality in itself? If we reduce the income in a middle class neighborhood, will this in itself improve the health of poor people living in the same city? The ...
• Vancouver: Planner’s Dream, Middle Class Nightmar ...
  Vancouver is consistently rated among the most desirable places to live in the Economist’s annual ranking of cities. In fact, this year it topped the list. Of course, it also topped another list. Vancouver was ranked as the city with the most unaffordable housing in the English speaking world by ...

GM Watch

• GM salmon under FDA consideration
• Cloned meat - invasive and risky
• 'Healthy bacon' patents raise questions
• Superweeds put USDA on hotseat
• Bt brinjal could be back - TAKE ACTION

spiked

• Stop these Cameron-Clegg fantasies, please!
  Contrary to the imaginings of both critics and fans, the hundred-day-old Lib-Con coalition is neither falling apart nor leading a revolution.
• University isn’t right for everyone
  If you’re going to university simply to improve your CV or ‘find yourself’, maybe it’s time for a rethink.
• Wyclef, don’t phunk with celebrity politics
  Why did media outlets campaign for Joanna Lumley to be PM but laugh at Wyclef’s desire to be president?
• Down Under: the danse macabre of labourism
  The political quake in Australia echoes what is also occurring in Britain and across Europe: the final demise of social democracy.
• What is Julia Gillard the leader of, exactly?
  Guy Rundle reports on how Australian Labor, cut off from its social roots, is now little more than a husk.

Cryptogon

• Pre Crime: Software Could Influence Sentencing Rec ...
  Via: ABC News: New crime prediction software being rolled out in the nation’s capital should reduce not only the murder rate, but the rate of many other crimes as well. Developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software is already used in Baltimore and Philadelphi ...
• California Delays $2.9 Billion School, County Paym ...
  Via: Bloomberg: California will delay paying $2.9 billion of subsidies to schools and counties in September, a month earlier than projected, to save cash amid an impasse that has left the state without a budget for 54 days. The stateâs top financial officials — the controller, treasurer and financ ...
• The U.S. Ministry of Egg Production
  As usual, for this and all other food nightmares, the solution is to get more people involved with widely distributed, small scale food production. My guess is that chickens are, by far, the best choice for integrating into a small scale food production system. They’re the ultimate permaculture crea ...
• Zombies Tapped Out: Subscribers to Pay TV Services ...
  Via: Investors Business Daily: The number of subscribers to cable, satellite and telecom TV services in the U.S. fell for the first time ever in the second quarter, according to research firm SNL Kagan. The U.S. multichannel TV market lost 216,000 customers last quarter, vs. a gain of 378,000 a year ...
• Big Picture Gallery: Russia in Color, a Century Ag ...
  Via: Big Picture / Boston Globe: With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei ...

The Economic Collapse

• Home Sales Drop 27 Percent In July And Things Are ...
  On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors announced that existing home sales in the United States dropped a whopping 27.2% in the month of July.  The consensus among analysts was that we would see a drop of around 13 percent, so when the 27 percent figure was announced it sent ...
• Will Quantitative Easing By The Federal Reserve Un ...
  Prior to the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, the Federal Reserve could always count on being able to stimulate the U.S. economy with a quick cut to interest rates.  But now with interest rates just barely above zero, the Federal Reserve is searching for other ways to pump life in ...
• It’s A Great Time To Be A New College Gradua ...
  Today, America's best and brightest are graduating from college full of hopes and dreams, but cold, hard economic reality is rapidly crushing many of them.  Record numbers of college graduates cannot find jobs.  Hordes of others have been forced to take very low paying service jobs. ...
• Rare Earth Elements: The World Is Rapidly Running ...
  Most people have no idea what rare earth elements are, but a wide array of the technologies that we use every single day are dependent on them.  Without rare earth elements, we would have no hybrid car batteries, flat screen televisions, cell phones or iPods.  Without rare earth ele ...
• Will Thousands Of Police Layoffs Unleash Chaos And ...
  Thousands of police officers have been laid off all across America since the current economic crisis began.  Thousands more are getting ready to be laid off.  So could we be on the verge of a new era of chaos and anarchy in America as crime runs wild and there are just far too few p ...

Desertification

• Engaging civil society organizations in combating ...
  Read at : Google – desertification http://www.global-mechanism.org/news–events/events/seminar-and-workshop-on-engaging-civil-society-organizations-in-combating-desertification- Seminar and workshop on engaging civil society organizations in combating desertification 1 September, 2010 – 2 September, ...
• Reforestation project in Mauritania (Magharebia)
  Read at : http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/newsbriefs/general/2010/08/22/newsbrief-03 Mauritania begins reforestation project 2010-08-22 Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz officially launched the Nouakchott Green Belt reforestation project on Saturday (August ...
• Nouakchott Green Belt project (Google / Magharebia ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2010/08/24/feature-02 Mauritania goes green 2010-08-24 Mauritanian citizens showed up with spades and shovels to help the president and senior officials launch the “green belt” reforestat ...
• URGENT SOLUTIONS NEEDED FOR BOSNIA’S DISPLACED (UN ...
  Read at : URGENT SOLUTIONS NEEDED FOR BOSNIAâS DISPLACED, SAYS UN ADVOCATE ANGELINA JOLIE New York, Aug 24 2010  3:05PM Hollywood actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie used her recent visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina to call for … Continue reading →
• 110 Years Of Sustainable Agriculture (Science Dail ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080929123945.htm Experiment Demonstrates 110 Years Of Sustainable Agriculture ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2008) â A plot of land on the campus of Auburn University shows that 110 years of sustainable farming practices can produce similar cotton crop ...

The Paper Trail

• ENVIRONMENT: Volunteer Vessels at BP Rig Were &#82 ...
  One of the many lessons learned from the BP disaster is to better coordinate responses by private boats that hurry to an offshore rig explosion, the retired Coast Guard admiral leading the federal relief effort said today, referring to an issue spotlighted in a Center for Public Integrity story.
• MONEY & POLITICS: American Crossroads Spin-off ...
  Conservative group American Crossroads , launched barely six months ago with help from GOP uber-consultants Ed Gillespie and Karl Rove, has raised $17.6 million through August 20, the group’s president Steven Law told the Center for Public Integrity.
• ENVIRONMENT: EPA Sets Public Hearings on Coal Ash ...
  Environmental advocates plan to organize citizens by the busload for a series of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency meetings on its proposal to regulate the disposal of coal ash, an environmental hazard that was the subject of an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity last year.
• ENVIRONMENT: EPA Says New Rules Coming for Chemica ...
  The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it would issue new rules for three chemicals used in dyes, flame retardants, laundry detergents and other consumer and industrial products.
• MONEY & POLITICS: End of DeLay Probe Raises Br ...
  The Justice Department’s probe of the biggest Congressional target in the sprawling Abramoff scandal, ended not with a bang, but with a whimper. And the reasons why likely speak to larger issues plaguing prosecutors at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue.

backofthebook.ca

• Oil sands science seeps out
  By Alison@Creekside Remember that two year Environment Committee study on the tarsands that was ultimately shredded because the four parties at the table couldn't agree on the wording of the witnesses's testimony? The Lib members of that committee have now released their own report on the testimo ...
• Who needs a BC arts council when we have the Liber ...
  By Frank Moher Jane Danzo, in her letter of resignation as Chair of the BC Arts Council and in various exit interviews that followed, has confirmed what most of us already suspected: that the Liberal government now sees itself as arbiter of all things cultural in the province. At last, we ...
• Canada: Please stop annoying Steve.
  By Alison@Creekside “They don’t bother us. It’s just that they are annoying,” a "senior Conservative official" told the G&M's Dear Jane yesterday about the public's uproar in reaction to the Cons' scrapping of the compulsory long-form census. "Census freedom," this same anonymous Conbot amusin ...
• Book Review: Freedom (TM), by Daniel Suarez
  By Eric Pettifor FreedomTM is the sequel to Daniel Suarez’s book Daemon which I reviewed previously, giving it four stars out of five. The sequel likewise is a very good read, progressing logically from the foundation laid in the first novel. The reason I didn't give Daemon a full five stars ...
• Stelmach sticks his head in the oil sands
  By Alison@Creekside Four "Rethink Alberta" billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis proclaim the "Alberta Tar Sands Oil Disaster" is worse than the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster. There's also a vid.   Alberta Preme Ed Stelmach is pledging $268,000 to mount a public relations offensiv ...

Worldnews

• Dhoni wins toss, India to bat against NZ
  --> Dhoni wins toss, India to bat against NZ Share ARTICLEURL...
• Jennifer Aniston to join Courteney Cox on sma ...
  London, August 25 (ANI)): Jennifer Aniston will soon be seen with her former 'Friends' co-star Courteney Cox on the small screen show 'Cougar Town'.�...
• Heineken H1 profits rise 42 percent on one-ti ...
  AMSTERDAM - Heineken NV, the world's third-largest brewer, said Wednesday its first-half net profit rose by 42 percent thanks to one-time financial gains, cost cutting and positive currency effects. The maker of Amstel and Dos Equis said net profit was euro695 million ($881 million), up from eu ...
• Hollywood star Heath Ledger helped Ben Cousin ...
  TRAGIC Hollywood star Heath Ledger spoke regularly with Ben Cousins at the height of the troubled footballer's drug addiction. Bryan Cousins revealed last night the late actor often rang him to discuss his son's addiction and had offered vital support to his son when he most needed it. In a rev ...
• Zamboanga City declares dengue fever outbreak ...
  ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines Officials have declared a dengue fever outbreak with the increase in number of people being afflicted by the mosquito-borne disease. August has not even ended yet but figures from the city health office showed that 314 dengue fever cases have been registered since ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Evening Briefing—24 Aug 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• ‘Militants’ Today, Cops Tomorrow in Af ...
  Kabul today announced it plans to replace U.S. militant contractors with Afghan militants. Jack Rice---criminal defense attorney, journalist and former C.I.A. analyst---discussed why he doesn't expect U.S. military contractors out of Afghanistan soon. He stressed that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's ...
• Who’s Really Being Naïve?
  Kevin Carson on the utopian silliness of statism.
• Daily Briefing—18th Aug 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Iraq and the Big Picture (Video)
  Jack Hunter---a.k.a. "The Southern Avenger"---notes that Dick Cheney was right about Iraq---in 1991.

MY Daily Apple

• Salmon baby food? Babies need omega-3s and a taste ...
  Has your toddler eaten fish today? A food science professor has two important reasons for including seafood in your young child's diet, reasons that have motivated her work in helping to develop a tasty, nutritious salmon baby food for toddlers.
• SIMCOR (Simvastatin And Niacin) Tablet, Film Coate ...
  Updated Date: Aug 24, 2010 EST
• VALCYTE (Valganciclovir Hydrochloride) Tablet, Fil ...
  Updated Date: Aug 24, 2010 EST
• CLARINEX-D 24 HOUR (Desloratadine And Pseudoephedr ...
  Updated Date: Aug 24, 2010 EST
• Man's Best Friend and Social Anxiety
  Animal lovers will agree that there is nothing like the love of a pet. High school science teacher Susan Boyd has taken this notion one step further by using animals to help kids overcome social anxiety in a program called " We'll Take You There ". Boyd recently completed a program with four chil ...

Common Dreams

• GOP: Staunch Defenders of Constitution... When It ...
  by Bob Evans WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia won his seat in Congress campaigning as a strict defender of the Constitution. He carries a copy in his pocket and is particularly fond of invoking the Second Amendment right to bear arms. But it turns out there are parts of the doc ...
• Pro-Environment Groups Outmatched, Outspent in Bat ...
  by Evan Mackinder It was supposed to be their time. With significant majorities in Congress, a president promising action and favorable public opinion all on their side, many environmentalists believed their political stars had properly -- and finally -- aligned.  Sensing the unique opportunity to ...
• As Floodwaters Recede, Anger Grows in Northwest Pa ...
  by Saaed Shah CHARSADDA, Pakistan - In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool. "This was our house," the 30-year-old Sirajuddin, ...
• Obama Plays Down Plan for Post-2011 Iraq Troop Pre ...
  by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, critics associated with the U.S. command attacked the transition plan, insist ...
• US Military 'Overwhelmed' by Mental Health Problem ...
  by Gregg Zoroya FORT HOOD, Texas - Nine months after an Army psychiatrist was charged with fatally shooting 13 soldiers and wounding 30, the nation's largest Army post can measure the toll of war in the more than 10,000 mental health evaluations, referrals or therapy sessions held every month. r ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Dr. Laura Schlessinge ...
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Dr. Laura Schlessinger used the "N" word eleven times in a call with a black lady http://ow.ly/18ygOI
• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel It's not always ...
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel It's not always pleasant - In some ways, we resist God. We don’t want him to work with us bec... http://ow.ly/18yaHn
• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel The smell of defeat - ...
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel The smell of defeat - Could it be the stench of rotting flesh? Or is it that oh-so-aweful smell that att... http://ow.ly/18xXS5
• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Who are the locusts m ...
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Who are the locusts mentioned in The Book of Joel and The Book of Revelation? http://ow.ly/18xPeT
• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Pray for Mentors - Wa ...
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Pray for Mentors - Washington Park: Friendship Ministries of Grand Rapids has a great curriculum for spe... http://ow.ly/18xFPc

Energy Collective

• FutureGen Switches Tracks
  The standard knock on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is that it hasn't been tested and proven on an industrial scale. That's really only true in the narrow sense in which you start with coal, produce electricity, and then collect and bury the CO2 that comes out the stack--which I imagine is ...
• If Politicians Really Want ‘Clean Coal,’ a Price o ...
• Leading the Clean Energy Charge: An Interview with ...
  Aggressive new efforts are underway to end the U.S. military’s reliance on oil by catalyzing clean energy technology innovation and adoption.
• Canada’s Largest Solar Rooftop, Case Study Part Th ...
  Operational since early 2010, the huge 800-panel solar rooftop system costs $1.85 million to build. The third part of this case study focuses on financial details. We look at the startup costs, operating costs, income from the high profile Ontario Feed-In Tariff program , and most importantly, the p ...
• Can the Military Lead the Clean Energy Charge?
  Aggressive new efforts are underway to end the U.S. military’s reliance on oil by catalyzing clean energy technology innovation and adoption.

Green House - USA Today

• Americans want smaller homes, not McMansions
  Is the McMansion era over? This is the question that Trulia, a real estat site, asks in revealing new survey results that suggest -- yes, in fact -- it is.
• California's plastic bag ban spurs mockumentary
  As the California Senate prepares to vote on the nation's first statewide ban on plastic bags, an environmental group has released a mockumentary -- narrated by actor Jeremy Irons -- on the life of a plastic bag.
• Biden: U.S. to halve cost of solar power by 2015
  Vice President Joe Biden released a report Tuesday that says the United States is on track, within five years, to halve the cost of solar power -- putting its on par with grid electricity -- and slash by 70% the cost of batteries for electric vehicles.
• Survey: Americans clueless on how best to save ene ...
  Many Americans remain clueless about how best to save energy, focusing more on small behavior changes such as turning off lights than on effiency efforts such as using compact flourescent light bulbs that have far greater impact, a new survey shows.
• Atlantic Ocean garbage debris remains mystery
  Where has all the plastic gone? For the first time, oceanographers have quantified the floating plastic debris in the Atlantic Ocean and have come to a surprising conclusion.

Prior Art

• Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
  With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
• Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
  seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
• Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
  Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...
• Patent Litigation Weekly: International Trade Comm ...
  Over the past two decades, the question of what constitutes a domestic industry has typically been heard by the same ITC administrative law judges who ultimately rule on the patent disputes that come before the agency. It's rare that the full commission considers the issue. On April 14, th ...
• Patent enforcement companies speak at SF conferenc ...
  Earlier this month, MDB Capital Group--an that promises to help investors understand "the hidden value of intellectual property assets and future technological leadership"--held what it billed as its first annual "Bright Lights" intellectual property conference, bringing together IP-centric ...

Peoples Voice

• America's Gulf: Updating the Greatest Ever Environ ...
  by Stephen Lendman For months, US media reports distorted and lied about its severity, running cover for BP and the Obama administration, now practically avoiding the crisis altogether as it worsens. An August 20 Inter Press Service report is revealing, quoting Biloxi, MS fisherman Danny Ross sa ...
• Notes from Besieged Gaza
  by Stephen Lendman On June 17, Israel's Cabinet issued a six point plan, agreeing to ease access for civilian goods entering Gaza without loosening inflexible security measures to restrict them. So what's changed? Not much. Increased truck traffic has been modest at best. The consumer ban was parti ...
• Cannon Fodder for the New World Order
  By Deanna Spingola In 1926, General Cherep-Spiridovich wrote, "War is only a 'legalized mass murder.' Thus Christ pointed out those who arrange all wars and revolutions, and that their chief cause is Satan and his sons' 'lust of murder.' But 'Christians' never seem to agree with Christ." 1 Gandhi c ...
• What in the world are they putting in the water? ...
  By Dr. Tom Termotto, BCIM, DCAE There’s a continuing saga in Tallahassee, FL that has gone on for many years, which is representative of similar sagas that are taking place across America. It all revolves around the water – specifically the water that is filtered and treated by municipal wate ...
• Iraq Pullout: Mission Accomplished or Strategic Re ...
  by Stephen Lendman In an August 2 speech to disabled veterans, Obama touted his planned withdrawal, saying: "As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end....Shortly after taking office, I announced our new strategy....for a transition to full Iraqi re ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child o ...
  Many of us at the CCPA have been troubled by Canada's reaction to the arrival of 492 Tamil asylum seekers on the MV Sun Sea. Seth Klein, Director of our BC Office, put words to this discomfort in an excellent post on PolicyNote.ca (our blog on BC public policy issues). Seth, son of Vietnam war resis ...
• The HST and BC family budgets
  That the HST will take a bite out of family budgets is clear to everyone. The main question right now is just how big of a bite. Two studies released earlier this week asked this exact question but came to very different conclusions... Visit Policy Note to read the rest of The HST and BC family b ...
• Spring issue of Our Schools/Our Selves looks at wh ...
  What kinds of messages are today's youth receiving in their lives?� What normative values are educational institutions creating for them? Where does racism fit? What impact is it having?� Is it being challenged and, if so, how and by whom? These are some of the questions the spring issue of Our Sch ...
• Housing Crisis in Saskatchewan: PATHS Report
  In Saskatchewan, homelessness has become a grave concern and a serious reality for�many women and children. Saskatchewan now has the highest rates of homelessness in the country�with one in five people saying that they are homeless or at risk of being homeless. �In the past 3 years in Saskatchewan ...
• New videos on the facts & myths of medicare sustai ...
  Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. On June 17, 2010 the CCPA and the Canadian Health Coalition hosted a breakfast lecture on the sustainability of medicar ...

World Wide Hippies

• Facebook Just Says No
  Get Your Pot Leafs Off Facebook, You Hippie Advertisers | Adotas Listen, you dirty hippies: Facebook doesn’t wanna run your pro-legalization display ads. It ain’t down with your THC consumption or your tie-dye or your free love or your patchouli stink. It’s a family social network that only runs fam ...
• UFO Photos
  UFOs ‘On The Record’: Generals, Pilots And Government Officials Talk About What They Know | Huffington Post The subject of UFOs — of intense interest to the general public — is no longer something that reputable journalists will feel they need to avoid or dismiss as silly. Popular culture has distor ...
• MA Towns Don’t Prosecute on Pot
  Several MA towns have stopped enforcing marijuana laws | Sinsemilla Some Massachusetts towns have given up enforcing a law that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, saying the law is written with too many loopholes to be effective. The law established a civil fine of $100 for ...
• 10 percent of young African Americans are behind b ...
  Black Men’s Jail Time Hits Entire Communities | NPR Almost 10 percent of young African American men are behind bars. Many legal scholars argue that the prison system locks those men out of civic life long after time served — and that the social fabric of all American communities suffers as a result. ...
• Why Are Cops In America Fat?
  Fat Cops In The Streets Of United States | Warm Photos Fat policemen are being given desk jobs across America because they are damaging the image of the force. Many Police Chiefs say they will take them off patrol duties if they don’t shape up and lose their excess pounds. Some Chiefs have said: Fat ...

Doug's Darkworld

• “Hello Gliese 581d inhabitant. Can you help ...
  There’s been some new thinking in SETI research. Well, it’s not that new, but it’s been brought into prominence by an important SETI researcher recently. His theory is that biological intelligences such as ourselves will quickly evolve into, or spawn, thinking machines. And those machines will also ...
• Conversations with Geoffrey
  Last U.S. combat convoy has left Iraqwww.cnn.com From Facebook: Doug: Woohoo! Mission accomplished, again! How many countries can win the same war twice? Of course Iraq is still a ghastly bloody failed state, and we simply relabeled the remaining troops in Iraq as “non-combat” troops, as if that mea ...
• Where the hell is Scheizerland?
  That was my mystery for today. Someone sent me an email about shipping costs to Scheizerland. You’d think that it would be easy to google “Scheizerland” and figure it out. No such luck. My best guess so far is that it’s misspelled Dutch for Switzerland. Why would someone writing to me in English fro ...
• Putting Things in Perspective … the Battle o ...
  Ah, the battle of Towton. One of my favourite battles of all time, and likely the bloodiest battle ever fought in England. And as might be expected, probably the largest battle ever fought in England. Upwards of eighty thousand men met in battle that day, including about half of the Lords in England ...
• A Macabre Mystery, What’s Killing Seals off ...
  Warning: If graphic descriptions of animals dying horrible deaths bothers you, skip this post. What’s been happening to some seals is right out of a horror movie. And no, this isn’t about seal clubbing and skinning, nasty though that may be. With that out of the way, there is a macabre mystery brewi ...

FourWinds10

• Uncovering the Lies That Are Sinking the Oil
• Gulf Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil
  DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama, Aug 12, 2010 (IPS) - BP says it is no longer using toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gulf Coast residents claim otherwise, and say they have the sicknesses to prove it. On Aug. 5, Donny Mastler, a commercial fisherman who also works on boats, was at ...
• Commander equivocates when grilled over BP using d ...
  Press Briefing by National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, August 9, 2010: � Elizabeth Cook: Yes. My question, Admiral Allen, is that there are persistent rumors from fishermen in Louisiana that dispersant is still being sprayed both offshore and in the marshes of Barataria Bay. And I have a ...
• Mekong River / Catfish
  VIEW VIDEO http://www.vimeo.com/11817894 August 9, 2010
• Photographer captures firefighter losing his life ...
  July 16, 2010, an oil pipeline explosion accident happened in Dalian, the fire was put out after 15 hours of burning.� The cause of the accident was still under investigation.� According to CCTV, about 400,000 gallon of oil was spilled into the Yellow Sea, which heavily polluted over 160 square kilo ...

Crisis Maven

• Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
  There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
• Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
  The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
• Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
  Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
• CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
  Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
• Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
  Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• What’s Really Holding Cellulosic Biofuels Back
  Join the forum discussion on this post There was a recent article in MIT Technology review called What’s Holding Biofuels Back? There is a relatively simple answer to the question that I will delve into below, but the short answer is “what’s holding biofuels back” is that we placed unreasonable exp ...
• Range Fuels Produces Something
  Join the forum discussion on this post I began to hear rumors about a week ago that Range Fuels had started to produce some methanol from their plant in Soperton, Georgia. This week they announced that they have indeed begun to make some product: Range Fuels Finally Gets its Cellulosic Plant Runni ...
• BP, Exxon, and Peak Lite
  Join the forum discussion on this post My vacation is over, so it’s back to work. I am still working on the followup to the MixAlco story, but there is a lot of material to digest. I am exchanging e-mails with Professor Holtzapple just now, trying to get answers to questions around the energy balan ...
• The Ethanol Question I Did Ask
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